Opinion
Case No. SC06-671.
June 9, 2006.
Lower Tribunal No. 50 2005 CA 008522.
The Florida Bar's petition for writ of prohibition is hereby granted. The Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit is exceeding its jurisdiction and usurping the exclusive jurisdiction of this Court with respect to the discipline of persons admitted to the practice of law in Florida. See Art. V, sec. 15, Fla. Const. (providing the Florida Supreme Court with exclusive authority to regulate the practice of law and "the discipline of persons admitted"). See also Tyson v. Fla. Bar, 826 So. 2d 265 (Fla. 2002); R. Regulating Fla. Bar 3-7.4(i).
Because we trust that the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit will fully comply with the dictates of this order, we withhold issuance of the writ.
PARIENTE, C.J., and WELLS, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANTERO, and BELL, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., concurs in result only.