Morgan v. Department of Environmental Protection

Ronald Scott Morgan appeals the administrative law judge’s denial of his motion to intervene in an environmental enforcement proceeding and the trial court’s dismissal of count III of his complaint in which he sought enforcement of regulatory violations filed against his adjacent neighbor, Jeffrey M. Adeeb. We affirm because Florida law does not afford citizens the right to intervene in agency enforcement proceedings, and because the trial court correctly determined that the Department of Environmental Protection diligently prosecuted the petition for enforcement pursuant to section 120.69,…