In the Matter of United Shoe MacHinery Corporation, Movant

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• “[K]nowing of a ground for requesting disqualifica- tion, [a party] can not be permitted to wait and decide whether he likes subsequent treatment that he receives.”
• “[K]nowing of a ground for requesting disqualifica- tion, [a party] can not be permitted to wait and decide whether he likes subsequent treatment that he receives.”
• “We cannot permit a litigant to test the mind of a trial judge like a boy testing the temperature of water in the pool with his toe, and if found to his liking, decides to take a plunge.”
• “One of the reasons for requiring promptness in filing [recusal motions] is that a party knowing of a ground for requesting disqualification, cannot be permitted to wait and decide whether he likes the treatment that he receives.”
• ‘We cannot permit a litigant to test the mind of the trial judge like a boy testing the temperature of the water in the pool with his toe, and if found to his liking, decides to take a plunge.”

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