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After years of home-rattling explosions and failed legislation to address it, Miami Lakes moved this week to sue Florida over a state ban on lawsuits against limestone mining operations.
The Town Council voted 7-0 for a measure by member Steven Herzberg to challenge the constitutionality of a state law that requires property damage claims related to blast mining to go through the state’s Division of Administrative Hearings.
That essentially “strips an entire class of claims from the court,” Herberg said, adding that all Miami Lakes wants is equal protection under the law.
“The (state) law is structurally flawed,” he said.
– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics