Carnival Corp. v. Velchez

Carnival Corporation petitions for a writ of prohibition contending that the trial judge should have disqualified herself. We disagree and deny the petition.

The petition argues that this Court’s decision in Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. v. Doe, 767 So.2d 626 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000), documents this trial judge’s bias against the cruise line industry and that petitioner has a “ ‘well-founded fear’ ... that [it] will not receive a fair trial.” Fischer v. Knuck, 497 So.2d 240, 242 (Fla.1986).

The statements made by this judge in Royal Caribbean must be read in their proper context. There, the judge made…