Orlando ( CNN ) -- The judge handling the defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony has stepped away from the case , leaving open the question of whether the Orlando woman will have to submit to a formal interview by her accuser 's lawyers just days after leaving jail . Judge Jose Rodriguez , after a 14 minute sidebar , announced without explanation that the case would be assigned to another judge . A new judge , Lisa Munyon , was assigned to the case later Friday morning . She was expected to hold another hearing Friday afternoon . Anthony , 25 , is being sued in civil court by a woman named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez . Anthony told investigators that was the name of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee 's nanny , and that the woman had taken the girl and disappeared . Investigators were never able to find evidence such a woman existed , but were able to find Gonzalez , who denied knowing Anthony or her daughter . Gonzalez said Anthony 's accusations turned her life upside down and led to death threats against her and her children . Two-year-old Caylee 's remains were found in a wooded field not far from the Anthony 's home . Anthony was acquitted July 5 of murder and child neglect charges in her daughter 's death . The jury did convict her of lying to investigators and she is expected to be released from jail on Sunday . The lawsuit is separate from those charges . Lawyers for Gonzalez want Anthony to answer their questions in a deposition on Tuesday . In seeking an emergency order forcing her to attend , they wrote that they expect her to leave the Orlando area and change her name , making it impossible to interview her . After the abbreviated morning hearing , Gonzalez attorney Keither Mitnik said there 's no reason the deposition should not go on as scheduled . `` She 's under subpoena , there 's no protective order , '' he said . `` She better have her behind in that deposition . '' But Anthony 's attorney in the civil case , Charles Greene , said she ca n't be forced to sit for a deposition so soon after a trial that left her `` emotionally and mentally exhausted . '' Greene also said he will be in trial on another case that day . If forced to attend the deposition , Greene said Anthony would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination . `` Consequently , the deposition would be nothing more than yet another media spectacle and frenzy , '' Greene wrote in court documents .
NEW : A new judge is assigned to the Casey Anthony defamation lawsuit . Judge Jose Rodriguez stepped aside Friday morning . It 's still unclear whether Anthony will have to attend a deposition . Anthony is being sued by a woman with the same name as the nanny who was found dead in her locked car last year, and whose body has never been identified.