Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Mar. 21, 2011
This case has been bifurcated (as described more fully below). The issues in the present portion of this case are as follows: 1. Whether Respondent, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering (the "Division"), engaged in undue or unreasonable delay in processing Petitioner, Ft. Myers Real Estate Holdings, LLC's ("Ft. Myers"), application for a quarter horse racing permit. 2. Whether the Division repeatedly denied Ft. Myers' application for a quarter horse racing permit. 3. Whether the Division denied Ft. Myers' petitions for hearing for the purpose of ensuring application of the new law, effective July 1, 2010, that made quarter horse racing permit applications subject to the limitations contained in section 550.554, Florida Statutes (2010).1/The Department did not take improper actions when processing Petitioner's application for a quarter hourse racing permit. The 2010 version of section 550.334 applies to Petitioner.