IN RE CITY OF DETROIT

No. 85-1894.

828 F.2d 1160 (1987)

In re CITY OF DETROIT, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abigail Elias (argued), Martha L. Black, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

Frederick M. Baker, Jr., Willingham, Cote, Hanslovsky, East Lansing, Mich., for Snell Environmental Group.

David Sims, U.S. E.P.A., Region V, Chicago, Ill., Richard J. McClear, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Kathleen Gallagher Lewis, James A. Smith, David Vago, Thomas A. Neenan, Wayne County Bd. of Public Works, Detroit, Mich., William P. Hampton, Davidson, Gotshall, Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch & Clark, Farmington Hills, Mich., Thomas F. Schimpf, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., Robert H. Fredericks, Chief Deputy Drain Comm., Pontiac, Mich., for appellee.

Joseph B. Klein, Asst. Wayne County Pros. Atty., John P. Williams, Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile, Detroit, Mich., James F. Graves (argued), Willingham, Cote, Hanslovsky, Griffith & Foresman, P.C., East Lansing, Mich., Marty Black, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., L. Michael Wicks (argued), U.S. Atty., William Dietrich, Wayne County Asst. Corp. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., John Michael Donohue (argued), Farmington Hills, Mich., for respondents.

Before NELSON and RYAN, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The City of Detroit, Michigan, and its water and sewerage department have petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus that would require the former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to recuse himself in two pending cases that arose out of the city's waste water treatment operations. Because the refusal of a trial judge to disqualify himself is not ordinarily subject to review by way of mandamus, and because...

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