ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A lawsuit against a sitting St. Johns County judge who was reprimanded by the Florida Supreme Court last year for misleading social media users during an election campaign was dropped this month.
Judge Casey Woolsey and her husband were accused of disseminating protected information about a political opponent, but the woman who filed the lawsuit dropped the case on Sept. 8.
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An attorney for the Woolseys said the dismissal in the federal case came after “Jane Doe” and her attorneys were served with a Motion for Sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit, giving them 21 days to dismiss the case.
“The record consistently demonstrated that neither Josh nor Casey Woolsey engaged in any of the conduct alleged,” a spokesperson for Woolsey Morcom, PLLC wrote in a statement to News4JAX. “The dismissal did not involve any payment or settlement agreement of any kind. The Woolseys paid nothing, conceded nothing, and negotiated nothing.”
The spokesperson noted the case was dropped “with prejudice,” permanently ending the case and preventing it from ever being refiled.
The lawsuit also named St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick and a political action committee, Stop Domestic Violence Florida.
The litigation spanned more than 18 months and involved nearly 30 depositions, many of them from members of the local legal community.