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IN RE CHEVRON U.S.A., INC.

No. 97-20612.

121 F.3d 163 (1997)

IN RE CHEVRON U.S.A., INC., Gulf Production Company, Gulf Pipe Line Company, Gulf Refining Company, and Gulf Oil Corporation, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 19, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Reasoner, Marie Roach Yeates, Catherine B. Smith, Anne M. Pike, Sandra Garza Rodriguez, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, Nancy J. Brown, Joanna Vague Hamrick, Robert E. Meadows, Richard Oran Faulk, Gardere, Wynne, Sewell & Riggs, Houston, TX, Penelope E. Nicholson, Houston, TX, Robert P. Scott, Jr., Abrams, Scott & Bickley, Houston, TX, for Petitioners.

Benjamin Lewis Hall, III, John M. O'Quinn, O'Quinn, Kerensky, McAninch & Laminack, Houston, TX, Richard P. Hogan, Houston, TX, Daniel O. Goforth, Carlene Rhodes Lewis, Goforth, Lewis & Williams, Houston, TX, Stephen Carrigan, Beckworth & Carrigan, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Respondent.

W. Mark Lanier, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Respondent.

Kenneth M. Hoyt, U.S. District Judge, Houston, TX, pro se.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Chevron U.S.A., Inc., et al., bring this, their Third Petition for Writ of Mandamus, based upon the district judge's denial of their motion for his disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455.1 For the reasons assigned, we conclude that the actions complained of meet the standards for recusal under § 455, but, as we explain, we exercise our discretion and decline to issue the requested writ.

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