Law Offices of Herssein and Herssein, P.A., etc. v. United Services Automobile Association

I dissent. I would adopt the view of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Domville v. State , 103 So.3d 184 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012), that having a lawyer as a Facebook "friend" not only "may undermine confidence in the judge's neutrality" but in this case warranted the judge's recusal based on a "well-founded fear of not receiving a fair and impartial trial." Id. at 186. Even more pointedly, as Judge Gross explained in his concurring specially opinion in granting the motion for certification in Domville :6

Judges do not have the unfettered social freedom of teenagers. Central to the public's…