A 2018 ex parte conversation between a South Florida judge and a plaintiffs lawyer in a tobacco lawsuit has resurfaced yet again — this time in a Fourth District Court of Appeal ruling finding it wasn’t unreasonable for the defendant in a separate case to worry about impartiality.

The majority per curiam opinion found it prudent to remove Broward Circuit Judge William Haury, but a dissent denounced the way “the perpetual disqualification of judges” is sometimes used as a weapon.