HENRY JAMES EARLY, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Quintana v. The Honorable Frederick N. Barad, 528 So. 2d 1300 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988)
  …urt be directed to rule on the motion. Where a trial court’s refusal to rule has no lawful basis, mandamus is the appropriate remedy. Calhoun v. Christie, 510 So. 2d 1000 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987); Villas at Cutler Ridge Homeowners’ Ass’n, Inc. v. Newman, 498 So. 2d 579 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986) (“mandamus is the proper remedy to compel a trial court to exercise its judicial authority and decide a cause, where there is no valid reason to reserve ruling on the matter”); Flagship Nat’l Bank of Miami v. Testa, 429 So. 2d 69,…
• Calhoun v. The Honorable Francis J. Christie & Robert Rainier, 510 So. 2d 1000 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987)
  …med the orders appealed from in Rainier, so that no legal impediment now exists for declining to rule on Calhoun’s application below. See Goggin v. Shanley, 81 So. 2d 728, 729 (Fla.1955) (en banc); Villas at Cutler Ridge Homeowners’ Ass’n v. Newman, 498 So. 2d 579 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Flagship Nat’l Bank of Miami v. Testa, 429 So. 2d 69, 70 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983). We assume that the issuance of a formal writ of mandamus will not be necessary [*1001] and that the respondent trial judge will rule on Calhoun’s peti…
• Maler v. Honorable Frederick N. Barad, 541 So. 2d 684 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989)
  …agship Nat’l Bank v. Testa, 429 So. 2d 69, 70 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983); accord Quintana v. Barad, 528 So. 2d 1300 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988); Calhoun v. Christie, 510 So. 2d 1000 [*687] (Fla. 3d DCA 1987); Villas at Cutler Ridge Homeowners’ Ass’n, Inc. v. Newman, 498 So. 2d 579 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986). Since I cannot agree that a potential improvement in a party’s financial condition constitutes a legitimate “justification that the ruling be withheld,” Flagship Nat’l Bank v. Testa, 429 So. 2d at 70, I would grant the applicatio…

Authorities Cited

• Rankin v. State, 143 So. 2d 193 (Fla. 1962)
• Roundtree v. State, 362 So. 2d 1347 (Fla. 1978)
• Puntasecca v. State, 172 So. 2d 885 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965)
• Ornales v. State, 177 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 1965)
• Robinson v. City of FT. Lauderdale, 177 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 1965)