G.C. v. Department of Children & Families

ORFINGER, R. B.,

concurring and concurring specially.

I concur with the court’s opinion because I am constrained to follow Anderson v. Glass, 727 So.2d 1147 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999), wherein we adopted a “thirty-day rule or be disqualified” interpretation of Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.160(f). While I agree with Anderson that “prompt rulings [on disqualification motions] promote public confidence in the impartiality of the trial judge,”11 do not believe that a thirty-day bright line test is either authorized by the rule or necessary.2

In Anderson, we emphasized that trial judges must…