Hartley v. Eighth Judicial County Court of Union County

We reverse the trial court’s order denying appellant’s petition for writ of mandamus and declaring appellant to be a vexatious litigant. We affirm the court’s order denying appellant’s motion for disqualification, which was legally insufficient.

The trial court erred as a matter of law by finding that appellant had “failed to allege that he has made the [lower] court aware of the pending motion,” citing Chapman v. State, 883 So.2d 835, 835-36 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004). Appellant attached to his mandamus petition a motion he had filed by placing it in the hands of prison officials for mailing,…