In Florida House of Representatives v. Expedia, Inc., 85 So. 3d 517 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012), which was the first published case to analyze and recognize the existence of a legislative privilege in Florida, the First District concluded that the state constitutional separation of powers provision provides an independent basis to recognize a legislative privilege under Florida law. 85 So. 3d at 524. The issue in Expedia was whether a legislator and a member of the legislator's staff could be deposed in tax-related litigation so that a party in the lawsuit could "refute a claim that it had waived the attorney-client privilege" as to several documents the legislator had obtained. Id. at 525. The First District held that the legislator and his aide were entitled to assert a legislative privilege against the compelled testimony and that there was no compelling interest in seeking the depositions because the party seeking them was "attempting to refute a fact that has not yet been proven, and, as it appears from this record, may never be proven." Id.