In Re Jonathan Cooper and Steven Lynn

How courts have described this case

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• “Generally, clashes between court and counsel are an insufficient basis for disqualification under [the] statute.”
• “It is true that occasionally exceptional circumstances do arise where a judge’s attitude toward a particular attorney is so hostile that the judge’s impartiality toward the client may reasonably be questioned.”
• “It is a judge’s job to make credibility determinations and inferences of partiality do not arise simply because the job is performed. Nor are judges required to mince words.”
• a judge is not required to “mince words” respecting counsel who appear before him; it is a judge’s job to make credibility determinations, and when he does so, he does not thereby become subject, legitimately, to charges of bias
• pro hac vice admission revoked after hearing in criminal case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).