An appeals court Wednesday denied a request by the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees to speed up consideration of a case about whether proper public notice was given before the board approved providing land for the presidential library of President Donald Trump.

The board last week asked the 3rd District Court of Appeal for an “expedited appeal” after Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz on Nov. 3 issued a temporary injunction to halt the land transfer. The appeals court Wednesday denied the board’s request.

Resident Marvin Dunn last month filed a lawsuit challenging the board’s Sept. 23 decision to transfer 2.63 acres of land to the state, with the intent that it would be used for the Trump presidential library. Dunn argued that the college had not given proper public notice before voting on the issue.

In requesting an expedited appeal, attorneys for the board contended that Ruiz “took the drastic step of enjoining the transfer of state property from one state entity to another” and that speeding up consideration would serve “the public interest by providing prompt clarity to public entities about their obligations under the Sunshine Act and preventing the administrability problems those entities would face trying to comply with the circuit court’s atextual reading (of the open-government law).”

But attorneys for Dunn, in a response filed Monday, said the board had not justified expedited consideration.

“The land is not going away, and neither is the proposed transferee, the state of Florida,” the response said. “Nor is appellant (the board) expecting to get millions upon millions of dollars from the state for the land, in which event time might be truly of the essence for appellant. Finally, the costs of time and resources that appellant might suffer over the time this case is on appeal will all be self-imposed and could be avoided if appellant, rather than fight the (circuit judge’s) order, simply decided to renotice its meeting with the disclosure mandated by the order.”

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