Southern Coatings, Inc. v. City of Tamarac, 4D02-4710.
Decision Date | 19 March 2003 |
Docket Number | No. 4D02-4710.,4D02-4710. |
Citation | 840 So.2d 1109 |
Parties | SOUTHERN COATINGS, INC., Petitioner, v. The CITY OF TAMARAC, Mayor Joe Schrieber, Commissioner Karen Roberts, Commissioner Marc Sultanof, Commissioner Edward Portner and Commissioner Gertrude Mishkin, Respondents. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Rosemary H. Hayes and Tina L. Caraballo of Hayes & Associates, Orlando for petitioner.
Christine M. Duignan and E. Bruce Johnson of Johnson, Anselmo, Murdoch, Burke & George, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for respondents.
We sua sponte withdraw our opinion issued February 5, 2003 and substitute the following.
Petitioner, Southern Coatings, Inc., the plaintiff below, seeks relief barring Broward County Circuit Court Judge Leroy H. Moe from continuing to preside over a hearing set on defendants' entitlement to and award of sanctions against petitioner's attorney. Previously Judge Moe had granted petitioner's motion for disqualification as to the case-in-chief. We grant the petition.
Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.160(f) provides in pertinent part that ("[i]f the motion is legally sufficient, the judge shall immediately enter an order granting disqualification and proceed no further in the action") (emphasis added). It was improper for the trial court to retain jurisdiction, without the parties' agreement, to prospectively hold a hearing as to one issue in the case after disqualifying himself as to the balance of the case. See CH2M Hill S.E., Inc. v. Pinellas County, 598 So.2d 85, 88 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992) ( ); Airborne Cable Television, Inc. v. Storer Cable TV of Fla., Inc., 596 So.2d 117, 117-18 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992) ( ); State ex rel. Cobb v. Bailey, 349 So.2d 849, 850 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977) ( ). Cf. Fischer v. Knuck, 497 So.2d 240 (Fla.1986) (...
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