Heinlein v. Metropolitan Dade County

PEARSON, Judge.

The appellants, Edsel and Clara Heinlein, filed a complaint against the appellee, Metropolitan Dade County, seeking a declaratory judgment holding Dade County’s Minimum Housing Standards Ordinance unconstitutional. The County filed a motion to dismiss but did not file an answer. Subsequently it filed a motion for summary judgment which the court granted. In effect this was a declaratory judgment against the appellants upon some of their contentions. In addition the judgment contained a finding that other attacks on the ordinance presented no justi-ciable controversy. The court…