PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC. v. BROWN

No. 1D12-3090.

96 So.3d 468 (2012)

PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., Petitioner, v. Mary BROWN, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rayfield Brown, as surviving spouse, and on behalf of the estate, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 5, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Sasso and Joseph Hagedorn Lang, Jr. of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, and Kenneth J. Reilly of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Miami, for Petitioner.

John S. Mills and Courtney Brewer of The Mills Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, John S. Kalil of the Law Offices of John S. Kalil, P.A., Jacksonville, and Leslie J. Bryan of Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM.

By petition for writ of prohibition, Philip Morris USA, Inc., seeks review of the trial court's order denying petitioner's motion for disqualification. We have jurisdiction. See, e.g., Lusskin v. State, 717 So.2d 1076, 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998). By order entered on June 27, 2012, we granted the petition for writ of prohibition and directed the lower tribunal to appoint a successor judge. We now write to explain...

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