Canal Place Ltd. Partnership v. Aetna Life Insurance (In re Canal Place Ltd. Partnership)

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• “[T]here must be some substantial countervailing reason to conclude that a decisionmaker is actually biased with respect to factual issues being adjudicated.” (emphasis added) (quotation omitted)
• “[I]f [one tribunal member] is found to have been biased when she cast her vote on [the employee’s] dismissal, her presence will have tainted the tribunal and violated [the employee's] due process rights.”
• evidence of personal conflict between city councilwoman and policeman that began when he issued traffic citations to her and her son, she allegedly made harassing comments, and he filed a grievance against her, created a factual issue about her possible animosity.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).