CITY OF KEY WEST TREE COMMISSION v. Havlicek

The Tree Commission of the City of Key West seeks a writ of certiorari directed to a Monroe County Circuit Court order granting certiorari with respect to a Special Magistrate’s verbal ruling on a discovery issue. We grant the Commission’s petition; the circuit court had no jurisdiction to review an oral order. See Fla. RApp. P. 9.100(c)(1) (time for petition for certiorari runs from rendition of an order); Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.630 (same); Fla. R.App. P. 9.020(h) (defining “rendition”). Based on the Magistrate’s comments at the hearing, the Magistrate’s view may have been that if the Magistrate…