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IN RE BELLSOUTH CORP.

Nos. 02-15362, 02-15445.

334 F.3d 941 (2003)

In re: BELLSOUTH CORPORATION, Petitioner. In re: Terry Price and Lehr, Middlebrooks, Price & Proctor, P.C., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 17, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne M. Brafford, Peter Buscemi, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Lawrence S. Robbins, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseek & Untereiner, Michael S. Sundermeyer, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, for BellSouth Corp.

Marc Gary, BellSouth Corp., Paul T. Stagliano, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Legal Dept., Atlanta, GA, Kumiki S. Gibson, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, George A. Stohner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, New York City, for Petitioners.

Byron Renard Perkins, Roderick T. Cooks, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, P.C., Albert Loring Vreeland, II, Lehr, Middlebrooks, Price & Proctor, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Suzette Marie Malveaux, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Cyrus Mehri, Gouri N. Bhat, Steven A. Skalet, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated cases, we are called upon to consider the appropriate course of action where a party is accused of contriving to engineer the recusal of a district judge by hiring a close relative of the judge as counsel. Petitioners seek a writ of mandamus compelling the district court to vacate its order disqualifying attorney Terry Price ("Price") and his law firm, Lehr Middlebrooks Price & Proctor ("LMPP"), from representing...

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