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Judges and Judiciary

Sep. 19, 2006

9th Circuit's Initiating Removal of Judge Is Unprecedented

LOS ANGELES - Rarely do lawyers succeed in getting a federal judge removed for alleged bias, either before trial or during the appellate process.

By Susan McRae
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     
LOS ANGELES - Rarely do lawyers succeed in getting a federal judge removed for alleged bias, either before trial or during the appellate process.
      But lawyers say they never have heard of an appellate court's taking a federal judge off a case of its own volition.
      That's exactly what happene...

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