The League of Women Voters of Florida, Petitioners v. Data Targeting, Inc., Respondents

Summary

The Florida Supreme Court granted an emergency petition and used its all-writs authority to stay enforcement of an intermediate appellate order that barred use of documents in an ongoing redistricting trial. The Court held that the documents could be admitted upon a showing of relevance, but only under seal and in a courtroom closed to the public, to preserve the status quo and prevent irreparable harm while the Court’s likely future jurisdiction was protected. The Court expressly did not decide whether the documents were permanently sealed or protected by associational privilege. Chief Justice Polston, dissenting, would have denied relief for lack of an existing independent jurisdictional basis, while Justice Lewis concurred in the exercise of all-writs authority.