Sanchez v. McKinney

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Our courts too often have treated as a matter of subject-matter jurisdiction that which does not go to the fundamental authority of the courts to decide a case. I believe this Court should, today, “clear up” the “ ‘ “blur[ring]” ’ [of] the lines” between such “distinct concepts” as “standing and real party in interest” of which the main opinion acknowledges our appellate courts have been “occasionally guilty.” 87 So.3d at 509 n. 7. We should not perpetuate in yet another case the confusion as to the issue of standing and, in turn, subject-matter jurisdiction that this Court has created in…