QUESTION: Should a judge recuse, on his own motion, or at the request of a party, from a case in which a former employer or client is a party litigant, if the judge did not participate in that particular case before taking office?
Is there a difference between situations in which the judge was in private practice, representing a client on case-by-case basis and that in which the judge was house counsel, representing only that entity?
WE ANSWER: NO, with exceptions...
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