Marshall v. Bookstein

We grant the petition seeking to prohibit the trial judge from continuing to preside in this cause.

Petitioners, Marvin E. Marshall and Alpha 2001, Inc., filed a motion to disqualify the trial court judge, based on comments he allegedly made at a motion calendar hearing. According to the motion, the judge expressed bias against petitioners’ counsel, angrily denouncing their “tactics” and deriding them as substandard “Miami Lawyers,” who “may get away with it in Miami but not up here.” The motion further stated that the judge’s hostile treatment of petitioner’s attorney and open display of…