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If a judge does not recuse themselves when they should have known to do so, they may be subject to sanctions, which vary by jurisdiction. Depending on the jurisdiction, if an appellate court finds a judgment to have been made when the judge in question should have been recused, it may set aside the judgment and return the case for retrial.
In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to step aside from cases.
The court issued a 14-page document that included five canons of conduct on issues such as when justices should recuse themselves and what kind of outside activities they can engage in.
Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to recuse themselves not only when actual bias has been demonstrated or when the judge has an economic interest in the outcome of the case but also when "extreme facts" create a "probability of bias."
Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney Kimberly Baird asked Judge Julie Muth Goodman to recuse herself from a murder case against Darryl Russell on Jan. 12, days before his trial was scheduled to begin ...
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The Post Office brought in Lord Grabiner to make an application to Justice Fraser that he recuse himself on the grounds of apparent bias. When asked to explain the delay in making the application, which was submitted after the start of the Horizon Issues trial, Grabiner replied that the decision had been made at board level and he had needed ...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon shows no signs of removing herself in the Trump documents case