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FL Court of Appeal Quashes Motion to Disqualify Concert Case Lawyer
The Florida Third District Court of Appeal ruled that a Miami-Dade, FL, circuit judge erred in granting Mexican songstress Paulina Rubio's request to disqualify the opposing attorney in a lawsuit over a missed concert. Gutierrez v. Rubio, 3D13-52.
Richard Wolfe of Wolfe Law Miami represents promoter Carlos Gutierrez and a consortium of Colombian entertainment groups in a 2010 breach-of-contract suit. Wolfe also represents Felipe Restrepo, whom Rubio hired as a personal assistant in late August and fired in October, in Restrepo's claim in Miami federal court for overtime and assault and battery.
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