Sarasota Doctors Hospital, Inc. v. Sarasota County (consolidated with Venice HMA, LLC v. Sarasota County)

Private hospitals sued Sarasota County for declaratory relief seeking reimbursement of indigent-care costs mandated by a special act; the trial court held sovereign immunity barred the claims and, alternatively, that the hospitals failed to comply with the act. The Second DCA reversed the sovereign immunity ruling, holding that sovereign immunity does not apply at all to claims premised on a governmental actor's ultra vires conduct or refusal to obey a direct legislative mandate, but affirmed the finding that the hospitals failed to submit timely certified lists with 'itemized charges' as the special act required.

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