JACK KESSLER,
v.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, ET AL.,
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This case involves a second-tier certiorari review where the appellate court considered whether the lower circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law when reviewing a county's decision to approve a boat dock permit. The appellate court denied the petition, finding the circuit court met due process standards and did not apply incorrect law.
Yes, the circuit court afforded procedural due process and did not apply the incorrect law. Therefore, the petition for second-tier certiorari is denied.
[1] Second-tier certiorari review is limited to whether the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law.
[2] Arguments as to the alleged lack of due process before an administrative body are properly presented to the circuit court but are beyond the scope of due process review i…
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SCALES, J.
In this second-tier certiorari case, petitioner Jack Kessler challenges a March 22, 2023 circuit court order that denied petitioner’s first-tier certiorari challenge to an October 6, 2022 resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Miami-Dade County. The County’s resolution approved an application for a boat dock permit submitted by petitioner’s neighbor, the County’s co-respondents, Alexander Ayzen and Alla Ayzen. Our second-tier certiorari review is limited to whether the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law. Cocoplum Civic Ass’n v. City of Coral Gables, 336 So. 3d 774, 774 (Fla. 3d DCA 2021).
We deny the petition because the record clearly shows the circuit court afforded due process. Seminole Ent. Inc. v. City of Casselberry, Fla., 813 So. 2d 186, 188 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002) (“As to whether the circuit court afforded [petitioner] procedural due process, in its petition for certiorari [petitioner] does not even contend to the contrary. Rather, in asserting a due process argument, [petitioner] improperly argues that it was not afforded procedural due process in the hearing before the city commission. Arguments as to the alleged lack of due process before the city commission were properly
presented to the circuit court but are beyond the scope of due process review available here.”) (footnote omitted). Also, there is no indication that the circuit court applied the incorrect law in its review of the County’s approval of the dock permit application. See Miami-Dade Cnty. v. Omnipoint Holdings, Inc., 863 So. 2d 195, 199 (Fla. 2003) (“The district court may not review the record to determine whether the underlying agency decision is supported by competent, substantial evidence.
Therefore, as a practical matter the circuit court’s final ruling in most first-tier cases is conclusive because second-tier review is so extraordinarily limited.”) (citation omitted); Somerset Acad., Inc. v. Miami-Dade Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Comm’rs., 314 So. 3d 597, 599 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020) (recognizing that an unelaborated circuit court order on first-tier certiorari will generally not merit second-tier certiorari review). Petition denied.
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Kessler v. Ayzen (Fla. 3d DCA 2026)
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- Miami-Dade Cnty. v. Omnipoint Holdings, Inc., 863 So. 2d 195 (Fla. 2003)