Bill Stroop Roofing, Inc. v. Metropolitan Dade County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “our governments are required to refund taxes and fees illegally exacted”
• explaining that “once the illegality of either [a tax or a fee] is established, the prerequisites for recovery are the same”
• finding that an illegal fee was required to be paid with other, legitimate fees, and return of the illegal fees was justified
• rejecting sovereign immunity as a defense to \a county's refusal to obey a direct legislative mandate\ through the collection of fees in derogation of a statute
• rejecting sovereign immunity as a defense to \a county's refusal to obey a direct legislative mandate\ through the collection of fees in derogation of a statute
• agreeing “with the Fourth District Court that once the illegality of either [a tax or a fee] is established, the prerequisites for recovery are the same” (citing Ves Carpenter Contractors, Inc. v. City of Dania, 422 So. 2d 342, 344 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).