PALM BEACH CTY. v. Town of Palm Beach

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• expert witnesses are not supposed to draw legal conclusions; this is the function of trial courts
• municipalities failed to sustain burden of proving that they received no real and substantial benefit from neighborhood parks not located within boundary of the municipalities under constitutional provision prohibiting taxation without benefit
• “Regardless of the expertise of the witness, generally, and his familiarity with legal concepts relating to his specific field of expertise, it is not the function of the expert witness to draw legal conclusions. That determination is reserved to the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).