Fertitta v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[djeclaratory proceedings were not intended to and should not serve as a substitute for appellate review or as a belated appeal”
• res judicata barred appellant’s declaratory relief because the trial court’s adjudication was a binding final judgment on the merits, whether or not the trial judge’s reasons for denying relief were “sound”
• circuit court’s final judgment which denied relief from Zoning Commissioner’s order that property owner cease using his property as a marina was binding adjudication on property owner who, like the Wharf here, did not appeal case on the merits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).