June 10, 2005

Statehouse Digest

By PETER SCHMIDT

POWER STRUGGLE: A Florida judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature have usurped the powers of the public university system's Board of Governors, established under a constitutional amendment adopted by voters in 2002. Judge Russell A. Cole of the state's second judicial circuit court said that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit -- a nonprofit citizens' group called Floridians for Constitutional Integrity -- had failed to show how they were directly

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