Opinion
Nos. 85-2844, 86-81 and 85-2826.
April 29, 1986.
Petition from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Leonard Rivkind, J.
Shorenstein Lewis and Marvin Lewis, Miami, for L.C. Screen Corp. and Tel-Met-Plas, Inc.
Spiegelman Spiegelman and Robert Spiegelman, Miami, for Lillian Kaplan and Mary Quartin, personal representatives of the Estate of Arthur Langsam, deceased.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.
In case no. 85-2844, L.C. Screen Corporation (L.C. Screen) seeks review by petition for certiorari of an order granting respondents' motion to disqualify L.C. Screen's counsel. The record supports a finding that L.C. Screen's counsel represented Arthur Langsam in previous litigation, at least a portion of which was sufficiently related to the present litigation to justify their removal. See Ford v. Piper Aircraft Corp., 436 So.2d 305 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983), review denied, 444 So.2d 417 (Fla. 1984); Buntrock v. Buntrock, 419 So.2d 402 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); Sears, Roebuck Co. v. Stansbury, 374 So.2d 1051 (Fla. 5th DCA 1979). Consequently, the trial court's order on the motion to disqualify was not a departure from the essential requirements of law and, therefore, the petition for certiorari is denied.
The facts in cases number 86-81 and 85-2826 are legally indistinguishable from those in case no. 85-2844 except that in the former cases the motions for disqualification of counsel were denied. On authority of the cases cited above, the petitions for certiorari in cases number 86-81 and 85-2826 are granted and the orders under review are quashed.