City of Miami v. Metropolitan Dade County

The City of Miami and the City of Miami Beach, along with Sol Green and others, owners of Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity issued by these municipalities, sought to enjoin the enforcement of and have declared invalid Dade County Ordinance No. 81-85. The ordinance provides for county-wide regulation of taxicabs and supersedes and rescinds existing municipal taxicab regulations. The trial court declared the ordinance “valid and enforceable in all respects,” and stayed the enforcement of the ordinance to give the municipalities and individual plaintiffs an opportunity to appeal.…