CITIZENS FOR THOUGHTFUL GROWTH - WEST PALM BEACH, INC. AND NANCY PULLUM
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THE CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH AND FLAGLER RESIDENTIAL, LLC
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A nonprofit organization does not waive the privacy rights of its members simply by filing suit, and a trial court cannot compel disclosure of members' names and addresses solely to determine the organization's standing.
[1] A discovery order compelling a non-profit organization to disclose the identity, contact information, and property address of its members and supporters who would be adve…
[2] Filing a lawsuit as plaintiffs does not automatically waive an organization's privacy rights concerning its members' names and addresses.
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Robert J. Hauser of Pankauski Hauser Lazarus PLLC, West Palm Beach, and John R. Eubanks of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A., West Palm Beach, for petitioner Citizens for Thoughtful Growth – West Palm Beach, Inc.
John R. Eubanks of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A., West Palm Beach, for petitioner Nancy Pullum.
K. Denise Haire, Assistant City Attorney of the Office of the City Attorney, City of West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, for respondent City of West Palm Beach.
Jack J. Aiello, Brian M. Seymour, Christopher P. Benvenuto, and S. Kaitlin Dean of Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondent Flagler Residential LLC.
PER CURIAM. Citizens for Thoughtful Growth (“CTG”) (a non-profit “watchdog group”), and its president Nancy Pullum, petition for a writ of certiorari from a trial court discovery order. The lawsuit filed by CTG contests development orders issued by the respondent, City of West Palm Beach, to respondent Flagler Residential, LLC (“Developer”), permitting the construction of a
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high-rise condominium. The order on discovery compels CTG to disclose the identity, contact information, and property address of all its members and supporters who would be adversely affected by the development order. The respondents contend that the information is necessary for them to investigate the plaintiff’s standing to sue pursuant to section 163.3215, Florida Statutes (2019). The petitioners contended that disclosure would violate a right of privacy of its members. We grant the petition and quash the order based upon National Rifle Association of America, Inc. v. City of South Miami, 774 So. 2d 815, 816 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000) (granting certiorari to petitioner National Rifle Association to quash trial court order compelling production of names and addresses of members living in Miami for the purpose of determining NRA’s standing to challenge ordinances; concluding that simply because association filed action as plaintiffs did not mean the organization waived the privacy rights concerning members’ names, and noting “[w]e express no opinion on whether the Associations have, or will be able to establish, standing. Those issues await consideration in the first instance by the trial court.”). WARNER, GROSS and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.
* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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