Ledger v. City of St. Petersburg

Three civil litigants petition this court for a writ of mandamus compelling the judge of the Appellate Division of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court to grant indigent fee waivers. As each petition presents the same legal issue, we have consolidated them only for purposes of this opinion. Because we conclude that the court has not complied with its ministerial duty to waive the filing fee when a litigant has been declared civilly indigent, we grant the petitions.

Each of these civil litigants filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Appellate Division of the Sixth Circuit, challenging a…