They won't frakken go away: https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/florida- ... ins-ruling
I know that this was discussed ad nauseum in the original topic, but I figured we could start a separate topic.
I know that this was discussed ad nauseum in the original topic, but I figured we could start a separate topic.
Indian River County, Florida, has filed a 186-page petition for a writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling against the county's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation and Virgin Trains USA.
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"The brief laid out how the courts improperly deferred to the Department of Transportation’s informal views without finding the statute ambiguous or applying the traditional statutory interpretive tools used by the courts," he said.
Private citizens raised $200,000 to pay for the county's costs of filing the petition. That led the Indian River County Commission on Feb. 18 to reverse a previous decision against pursuing a high court review of the December 2019 ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
In that ruling, a three-judge panel for the appellate court found that USDOT "permissibly and reasonably determined" that the Virgin Trains/Brightline project qualified for tax-exempt private activity bond financing. The court also concluded that the project's environmental studies and permits complied with the National Environmental Policy Act.
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