In a press release last week, Miami-Dade Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez issued a sweeping declaration that his office had revoked business licenses from 20 businesses that were “engaging in illegal commerce with the Cuban Communist dictatorship.” The businesses had weeks to show his office that they were on the up and up after he sent them certified letters, he said, but they did not do so.
There was at least one problem: One of the businesses Fernandez publicly derided was never sent the letters where he asked for information.
Now that business, Xael Charters, is suing Fernandez, asking a federal court to bar Fernandez from effectively shutting down their business and to declare that a state law cited by Fernandez is unconstitutional…