Statutory Interpretation Illustration
The Florida First District recently rendered Mobley v. Fussell, 1D19-4286, regarding the intriguing topic of whether a court clerk might charge someone for copies of public records. Please do not tune out just yet, as the analysis delves far deeper than the seeming banality of copy costs, and is actually a somewhat intriguing and educational expose of the process of statutory analysis. As an aside, this matter came to the Court as a "mandamus petition." Mandamus is one of the extraordinary writs that are exceptions to the general rule that appellate courts address allegations of error most o...