Case Name: Leonard A. ROUDNER and Leonard A. Roudner, P.A., Petitioners, v. Honorable Mary Ann MacKENZIE, Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-12-13
Citations: 536 So. 2d 299
Docket Number: No. 88-2623
Parties: Leonard A. ROUDNER and Leonard A. Roudner, P.A., Petitioners, v. Honorable Mary Ann MacKENZIE, Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondent.
Judges: Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 536
Pages: 299–299

Head Matter:
Leonard A. ROUDNER and Leonard A. Roudner, P.A., Petitioners, v. Honorable Mary Ann MacKENZIE, Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondent.
No. 88-2623.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 13, 1988.
Patricia E. Kahn, Miami, for petitioners.
No appearance for respondent.
Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
On moving papers that were legally sufficient, the petitioners sought to disqualify the respondent judge from presiding over non-jury commercial litigation pending in the trial court below. The petitioners' attorney in the pending matter is the daughter of the incumbent circuit judge who defeated the respondent judge's husband in a recent election. These facts are sufficient to have warranted the respondent judge's entering an order of recusal. See Caleffe v. Vitale, 488 So.2d 627 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986).. See also Breakstone v. The Honorable Mary Ann MacKenzie, No. 88-2392 (Fla. 3d DCA Nov. 29,1988). We are confident that the respondent judge will enter an order of recusal, and, accordingly, we withhold formal issuance of our writ of prohibition.