Save Boca Fights Back on Flawed Lawsuit

SAVE BOCA FIGHTS BACK WITH MOTION TO INTERVENE AND TRANSFER THE CASE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL JUDGE

This week, the Petitioners Committees for the Save Boca ordinances filed a Motion to Intervene and a Motion to Transfer the Case back to the original judge the case had been assigned to.  In early October, the Plaintiff filed the original case against Jon Pearlman and Save Boca, dismissed it, and then refiled the same case a second time a couple weeks later.  Law maintains that when refiling the same case it must go before the same judge, yet a new judge was assigned and the Plaintiff failed to notify the court that it had been already filed with a different judge and division of court.  On the case sheet form of the second filing that asked, "Has notice of any known related case been filed?" -- the plaintiff checked off "no". 

CLICK ABOVE to watch Save Boca founder Jon Pearlman give an update on the Motion to Intervene and Transfer the Case at Tuesday's Council Meeting.

As further details have come out about the case, it's become clear the Plaintiff's case has serious deficiencies in procedure and doesn't appear that it will endure much longer.  The Petitioners Committees and Jon Pearlman are confident that voters will soon have the opportunity to pass the Save Boca charter and ordinance into law.

Despite having filed the case once, dismissed it, and filed the same case a second time, the Plaintiff checked "no" to "Has any known related case been filed," which indicates he hid the original filling from the court.