{"id":3920,"date":"2025-10-15T03:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3920\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:25:06","slug":"reasonable-notice-not-given-judge-temporarily-blocks-land-transfer-for-trumps-presidential-library-cites-violation-of-florida-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3920\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Reasonable notice not given’: Judge temporarily blocks land transfer for Trump’s presidential library; cites ‘violation’ of Florida law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'ReasonableUS President Donald Trump A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for the future Donald J Trump presidential library. The library is set to be built on a plot owned by Miami Dade College.Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz said the college\u2019s board of trustees, which initially gifted the \u201csizable plot\u201d of real estate to the state, had violated a Florida government law. According to Ruiz, the board \u201cdidn\u2019t give the public reasonable notice ahead of the vote last month.\u201d\u201cThis is not an easy decision,\u201d Ruiz told reporters from the bench, as reported by The Associated Press. She added, \u201cThis is not a case, at least for this court, rooted in politics.\u201dThe lawsuit was filed last month by activist Marvin Dunn, who alleged that the board violated Florida\u2019s \u201cGovernment in the Sunshine\u201d law by failing to provide sufficient notice for its special meeting on September 23, when it voted to give up the land.As per Dunn\u2019s complaint, the agenda released ahead of the meeting \u201csimply stated the board would consider conveying property to a state fund overseen by Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet,\u201d but it \u201cprovided no details on which piece of property was being considered or why.\u201d Dunn also noted that, unlike every other meeting the board had held this year, this meeting was not livestreamed.A week later, DeSantis, who is from Trump’s Republican Party, and other top officials voted to transfer the land again, effectively putting the property under the control of the president’s family.The case comes despite DeSantis signing a bill earlier this year pre-empting local governments from blocking the development of the library, a move aimed at overruling potential opposition in liberal-leaning counties or municipalities.College questions petitioner’s \u2018motives\u2019Jesus Suarez, an attorney for Miami Dade College, argued that the college did \u201cwhat was required under the law\u201d and questioned Marvin Dunn\u2019s \u201cpolitical motivations\u201d for filing the lawsuit.\u201cThere is no requirement under Florida law that there be specificity on notice, because those trustees can come into that room and talk to each other about whatever they wish,\u201d Suarez said.Attorneys for Dunn countered that no one who wasn\u2019t already aware of the deal could have known what the board would decide.\u201cThe people have a right to know what they\u2019re going to decide to do when the transaction is so significant, so unusual and deprives the students and the college of this land,\u201d plaintiff\u2019s attorney Richard Brodsky told The Associated Press prior to the judge\u2019s decision.Property a \u2018developer\u2019s dream\u2019The nearly 3-acre (1.2-hectare) property has been described as a \u201cdeveloper\u2019s dream\u201d and is valued at more than $67 million, according to a 2025 assessment by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser. Other Florida locations had previously been considered for the library, including sites associated with Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Florida International University in suburban Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4289,28,30,4174,29,4388,4287,4387],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-donald-j-trump-presidential-library","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-judge","tag-florida-news","tag-government-in-the-sunshine-law","tag-miami-dade-college","tag-miami-land-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}