Inphynet Contracting Services, Inc. v. Soria

These consolidated petitions for writs of prohibition involve petitioners’ efforts to disqualify the trial judge on the ground that the trial judge was biased in favor of counsel for the plaintiff. Petitioners cobble together a series of incidents beginning in 2008, but say that they complied with the ten-day time limit of Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.330(e), because their motions to disqualify were filed within ten days of them being “convinced” that the judge was biased. This approach is contrary to the typical situation involving a motion for recusal, which is filed within ten…