Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...Section 120.57 governs all proceedings in which the substantial interests of a party are determined by an agency. [3] DOT's estimate was not introduced into evidence. DOT employees testified as to how the estimate was put together but did not explain the actual figures because of the confidentiality of the estimate. See § 337.168, Fla....

...Specifically, Capeletti argues that since the committees screen the bidders by *858 recommending whether a bidder should be accepted or rejected, their activities constitute decision-making and therefore fall within the coverage of the Sunshine Law. We find no merit to this argument. Section 337.168 expressly exempts DOT's official cost estimates, identities of potential bidders, and the bid analysis and monitoring systems from the public disclosure requirements of section 119.07(1), the Public Records Act....

...When the Sunshine Law and a Public Records Act exemption conflict, the later, more specific expression of legislative will prevails. Marston v. Gainesville Sun Publishing Co., Inc., 341 So.2d 783 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976), cert. denied, 352 So.2d 171 (Fla. 1977). The exemptions in section 337.168 were enacted after the Sunshine Law and constitute the later, more specific expression of legislative will and must, therefore, be given effect....

...ti Brothers, this court rejected a similar claim involving bid procedures, holding that when the Sunshine Act and a Public Records Act exemption conflict, the later, more specific expression of legislative intent prevails (there the exemptions under section 337.168)....

...Groves-Watkins Constructors, 530 So.2d 912, 912 (Fla.1988), for the project is set out in the bid *1189 documents which are already a matter of public record. DOT contends that information and materials sought by Rosiek’s requests for production and interrogatories are confidential under section 337.168(1), Florida Statutes (2004) (“A document or electronic file revealing the official cost estimate of the department of a project is confidential and exempt from the provisions of s....