Emassas v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• appearance of impropriety, and perhaps even actual impropriety, may not be raised for the first time on collateral attack
• appearance of impropriety, and perhaps even actual impropriety, may not be raised for the first time on collateral attack
• serious conflict of interest could exist in future § 1983 actions in which one attorney represents both a county and a county official individually
• county treasury employee’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was dismissed because of his intention to make a public speech on civil rights for homosexuals
• to be subject to collateral attack, petitioner must show that judge was in fact so biased that proceeding was unfair
• “[A] litigant is not denied due process by either the “appearance” of partiality or by circumstances which might lead one to speculate as to a judge’s impartiality. A litigant is denied due process if he is in fact treated unfairly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).