KNOW YOUR LOBBYISTS: MEET FSDB Eminent Domain Lobbyist Sidney Ansbacher

SIDNEY F. ANSBACHER

EXPERIENCE

Sid is a Jacksonville native. He practices principally in administrative land use and environmental law. He holds an LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas.

Sid practiced in the Division of State Lands for the Florida Department of Natural Resources, working on such purchases as Guana River, Kingsley Plantation, Ft. Clinch, the Truman Little White House in Key West, and the Big Bend. Additionally, he acted as General Counsel to the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind from 2005 through 2008.

In private practice, Sid has a wide ranging administrative, environmental and land use practice. He also helped write the environmental lending policy manuals for multiple statewide banks.

EDUCATION

University of Florida, B.A. (1981)
Hamline University, J.D. (1985)
University of Arkansas, LL.M. (1989)

PROFESSIONAL

The Florida Bar (1986)
Environmental and Land Use Law Section (ELULS), Past Chair
Environmental and Land Use Law Section (ELULS), Executive Council, Ex-Officio Member
Council of Sections, Member, 2000-2002
Environmental and Land Use Law Treatise, Managing Editor, 2001-Present
Judy Florence Outstanding Service Award, 1992, 2000
The Jacksonville Bar
Environmental and Land Use Law Section, Chair, 1993-1995
American Bar Association
Environment, Energy and Resources Section
Constitutional Law Committee, Programs Vice Chair, 2011-2012
U. S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (1988)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1994)
United States Supreme Court (2009)
"AV" Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Who's Who in American Law
Recognized by Jacksonville Magazine as one of the "250 Best Lawyers of 2010" in Jacksonville in Energy Law and ADM Law
Florida Super Lawyers, 2008-2011
Selected as Best Lawyers in America, Administrative Law and Energy Law, 2009-2012
Listed in Leading Florida Attorneys: Real Estate and Environmental Law (Top 1 percent of specialty)
Florida Trend Magazine, Twice selected among Florida's "Legal Elite" (Top 1.7 percent of Florida lawyers)
Florida High School Mock Trial Competition, Scoring Judge, 2006
Stetson University College of Law International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Presiding and Scoring Judge, 2006 and 2010
Florida Coastal School of Law, Adjunct Professor in Water Law

CIVIC

St. Johns County Weed and Seed Committee, Member, 2002-2007
West Augustine Community Redevelopment Agency, Counsel, 2002-2007, 2010-present
Regional Community Institute of Northeast Florida, Affordable Housing Committee, Member, 2010
Northeast Florida Regional Council, Leadership Academy, 2010

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Breaching the Trust Fund, published in The Florida Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section Reporter, Volume XXXI, No. 1, September 2009
What did you Expect from Swamp Sales, a Happy Ending?, ABA Constitutional Law Committee Newsletter, September 2010 Edition
Trends in Disclosure of Environmental Conditions, The Florida Bar Environmental and Land Use Section Reporter, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, October 2010
Stop the Beach Renourishment Stops Private Beachowners' Right to Exclude the Public, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Fall 2010
Stop the Beach Renourishment: A Case of MacGuffins and Legal Fictions, Nova Law Review, Summer 2011

Author or Co-Author of the following Florida Bar Journal articles:

Strictly Speaking, Does F.S.§376.313(3) Create Duty to Everybody, Everywhere?, Part I,September/October, 2010 Volume 84, No. 8
Strictly Speaking, Does F.S.§376.313(3) Create Duty to Everybody, Everywhere?, Part II, November, 2010 Vol. 84, No. 9
The Delicate Tax Ramifications of Donating Environmentally Sensitive Lands, May, 1993 Vol. LXVII, No. 5
Local Government Riparian Rights and Authority, June, 1996 Vol. LXX, No. 6
What Is a Bad Faith Administrative Petition, June, 2000 Volume LXXIV, No. 6
The Evolution of Declaratory Statements, November, 2003 Vol. LXXVII, No. 10
What's a Local Government Got to Do to Get Reviewed Around Here? - Review of Local Administrative Actions by Common Law Certiorari after Pleasures II v. City of Sarasota, May, 2003 Volume LXXVII, No. 5
We Thought We Were Safe: Federal Court Holds RCRA Preempts State Petroleum Cleanup Bar Statute, April, 2000 Volume LXXIV, No. 4
Environmental and Land Use Section Treatise: Antitrust Implications of Environmental and Land Use Law; Nonconforming Uses and Structures; and Spot Zoning

Author or co-author of various Law Review articles
Various speaking engagements