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Joseph A. Brown

Partner

Litigation
Tallahassee P: 850.692.7303
  • B.S.E.S., University of Georgia, with Honors
  • J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, with Honors; (Georgia Law Review, Notes Editor)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Florida Bar Association
    • Administrative Law Section Member
    • City, County & Local Gov’t Law Section Member
    • Envtl. & Land Use Law Section Member 
  • Georgia Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Air & Waste Management Association

Community Involvement

  • Big Bend Habitat for Humanity, Former President
  • Keep Tallahassee-Leon County Beautiful, Former Chairman
  • The Sharing Tree, Former Chairman

Joe has a wide-ranging practice encompassing administrative, state, and federal litigation and counseling clients on a variety matters including special district governance, public financing, and land development; construction defects; compliance with state and federal environmental regulations; governmental rulemaking and permitting; and contract and business disputes. 

Joe's clients include individuals, landowners, developers, industrial business interests, and state and local governmental entities.

 

Representative Experience

  • Advised special tax districts in general counsel capacity on a variety of issues including financing public infrastructure to support development, public bidding and construction, assessment levy and collection, public records, sunshine law, etc.
  • Represented clients successfully in variety of special tax district-related disputes, including contract disputes, property disputes, and enforcement and collection of special assessments.
  • Represented clients successfully before state and federal environmental agencies on a variety of permitting- and rulemaking-related matters.
  • Represented business interests in successful resolution of environmental permitting litigation.
  • Represented electric utility interests in successful litigation challenging imposition of new regulatory program under the Clean Air Act.
  • Represented electric utility interests in several challenges to federal rulemakings in the 11th and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal and in the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Represented property owners in litigation related to beach and coastal management issues, including property rights and permitting of beach restoration and inlet management projects.
  • Represented businesses and individuals in a variety of contract, property, and business disputes. 

Representative Matters

  • Invesco AMT-Free Municipal Income Fund v. Grand Venezia COA, No. 2D2025-2469 (Fla. 2d DCA 2025)
  • Family Business Fund, LLC v. OMD I Corp., No. 2024-CA-001132 (Fla. 2d Cir. Ct. 2024)
  • Family Business Fund, LLC v. Solar Match, LLC, No. 2024-CA-001005 (Fla. 2d Cir. Ct. 2024)
  • Palm Beach Residential Management, LLC v. NR Florida Associates, LLC, No. 2024-CA-006334 (Fla. 15th Cir. Ct. 2024)
  • Independent Construction of the Treasure Coast, LLC v. Day Late Enterprises, Inc., No. CA24-0343 (Fla. 7th Cir. Ct. 2024)
  • Reef Private Credit, LLC v. CBPW Corp., et al., No. 2023-CA-016643 (Fla. 9th Cir. Ct. 2023)
  • West Villages Improvement District v. Gran Paradiso Property Owners Association, Inc., et al., No. 2D2023-1293 (Fla. 2d DCA 2023)
  • Costa Verde Lands, LLC v. Day Late Enterprises, Inc., No. CA23-1520 (Fla. 7th Cir. Ct. 2023)
  • W. Gardner, LLC v. Day Late Enterprises, Inc., No. CA23-1359 (Fla. 7th Cir. Ct. 2023)
  • Fernstrum v. West Villages Improvement District, No. 2023-CA-007416 (Fla. 12th Cir. Ct. 2023)
  • O'Sullivan v. West Villages Improvement District, No. 2023-CA-007165 (Fla. 12th Cir. Ct. 2023)
  • Florida Pace Funding Agency v. State of Florida, No. 2022-CA-001562 (Fla. 2d Cir. Ct. 2022)
  • Jon M. Hall Company, LLC v. North River Ranch Improvement District, No. 412022CA003863CAAXMA (Fla. 12th Cir. Ct. 2022)
  • Nursespring of Tampa, LLC v. New Port Richey Facility Operations, LLC, No. 2022-CA-002306-O (Fla. 9th Cir. Ct. 2022)
  • Nursespring of Northern Florida, LLC v. Tallahassee Facility Operations, LLC, No. 2022-CA-002305-O (Fla. 9th Cir. Ct. 2022)
  • Gran Paradiso Property Owners Association, Inc. v. West Villages Improvement District, No. 2022 CA 005368 SC (Fla. 12th Cir. Ct. 2022)
  • Nassau County v. Raydient LLC, No. 1D2021-3487 (Fla. 1st DCA 2021)
  • Marine Indus. Ass’n of Palm Beach County, Inc., v. Fla. Fish and Wildlife Conservation Comm’n, No. 21-1661RP (Fla. DOAH Nov. 4, 2021)
  • Marine Indus. Ass’n of Palm Beach County, Inc., v. Fla. Fish and Wildlife Conservation Comm’n, No. 21-1662RP (Fla. DOAH Sept. 20, 2021)
  • Tzodikov v. Mosaic Fertilizer, L.L.C., No 20-2949 (Fla. DOAH Aug. 5, 2020)
  • City of Destin v. Wilson, No. 20-2123F (Fla. DOAH Aug. 6, 2020)
  • Flow Way Community Development District v. Reiter, et al., No. 2020-CA-004147 (Fla. 20th Cir. Ct. 2020)
  • Baroody v. City of Quincy, No. 4:20-cv-217-AW-MAF (N.D. Fla. June 7, 2020)
  • Jacobson v. Fla. Sec'y of State, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 28078 (11th Cir. Sept. 3, 2020)
  • Jacobson v. Lee, 411 F. Supp. 3d 1249, 1254 (N.D. Fla. 2019)
  • State of Wisconsin v. EPA, No. 16-1406 (D.C. Cir. Sept. 13, 2019)
  • Donovan, et al. v. City of Destin, et al., No. 1D2019-4101 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019)
  • EME Homer City Generation, L.P., v. EPA, 795 F.3d 118 (D.C. Cir. 2015)
  • EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P., 134 S. Ct. 1584 (2014)

Publications & Presentations

  • Florida’s Renewable Energy Projects, Florida Chamber Foundation 31st Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School (July 2017) (co-presenter).
  • Florida’s Renewable Energy Projects, Florida Chamber Foundation 30th Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School (July 2016) (co-presenter).
  • Conference Co-Chair, Florida Section Air & Waste Management Association, 51st & 53rd Annual Conference, Tallahassee, Florida (October 2015; October 2017).
  • EPA’s Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction SIP Call, Air & Water Permitting Workshop, Tampa, Florida (September 2015).
  • Climate Change and the Clean Air Act: Reluctant Dance Partners, Environmental and Land Use Law Reporter of the Florida Bar, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1 (September 2014).
  • Air Law Hot Topics: Fine Particulate Emission Limits, NSR Enforcement and More, Florida Bar Environmental and Land Use Section Webcast (June 2014) (Co-presenter).
  • Permitting Sources of Air Toxics, Florida Treatise on Environmental and Land Use Law (June 2014) (Updating Author).
  • Clean Air Act Compliance and Enforcement, Florida Treatise on Environmental and Land Use Law (June 2014) (Updating Author).
  • Florida Treatise on Environmental and Land Use Law, Chapter 23: Air Quality (2014) (Updating Author).
  • Air Quality Regulation Update, Air & Waste Management Association, Coastal Plains Chapter (2014).

 

 

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