Jacobs Keeley, PLLC v. Chief Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit

Jacobs Keeley, PLLC, a law firm, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the chief judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit to comply with its request for public records regarding reassignment of cases following judicial disqualification in the circuit’s foreclosure division. We deny the petition for writ of mandamus in part and order production of certain e-mails claimed to be privileged.

The law firm filed a broad records request in October 2014. The general counsel of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit responded that an e-mail search of the time period requested had resulted in location of 41,691…