District Court of Appeal of Florida

A petition for writ of prohibition filed by the plaintiffs in a medical malpractice action regarding a motion for disqualification of a judge is granted where plaintiffs' motion was legally sufficient, they were not required to conduct an investigation relating to the impartiality of the judge, and the judge could not be deemed impartial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/17/2006
• Published 05/17/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott M. Newmark of Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Philip M. Burlington of Burlington & Rockenbach, P.A., West Palm Beach, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shelley H. Leinicke of Wicker, Smith, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for respondent Anne D.M. Graham, M.D. and Anne D.M. Graham, M.D., P.A., Keith Puya of Stephens, Lynn, Klein & LaCava, West Palm Beach, for respondent Kecia Gaither, M.D., Bonnie Sonneborn of Sonneborn, Rutter, Cooney & Klingensmith, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondent Debra Jones, M.D. and Debra Jones, M.D., P.A., Roy Watson of Adams, Coogler, Watson & Merkel, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondent Good Samaritan Hospital.