Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering v. Investment Corp. of Palm Beach

In Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering v. Investment Corp. of Palm Beach, (Fla. 1999), the supreme court found that the lesson drawn from this court's interpretation in Tomoka Land and Chiles "is that the Legislature will not micromanage Florida's administrative agencies and that the public's interest is served in encouraging agency responsiveness in the performance of their functions." See Investment Corp. The court further found that "the procedural safeguards inherent in a petition for declaratory statement are sufficient to protect the rights of any other concerned parties." See id. In other words, the notice provision "'accounts for the possibility that a declaratory statement may, in a practical sense, affect the rights of other parties' and allows any substantially affected party to intervene in the declaratory statement proceeding before the agency."