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

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