Bondi v. Brito

BLACK, Judge.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General of the State of Florida; Jeffrey H. Atwater, Chief Financial Officer of the State of Florida (“the CFO”); and the Florida Department of Financial Services (“the Department”) petition this court for writs of prohibition to prevent the circuit court from requiring the attorney general and the CFO to appear personally at show cause hearings in three separate proceedings. The circuit court instituted show cause proceedings when the CFO failed to comply with the court’s orders requiring him to release funds held by the Department in the State School…