Leon H. Brody v. President & Fellows of Harvard College

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a judge’s status as an alumnus of the defendant school “hardly seems likely to manifest itself in a bias” and did not warrant recusal
• stating that \an alumnus's interest in the general welfare of his alma mater hardly seems 20 likely to manifest itself in a bias concerning a single staff employment decision\
• noting that litigants ordinarily are bound by their tactical decisions at trial
• “There is as much obligation upon a judge not to recuse himself when there is no occasion as there is for him to do so when there is ....”
• “All judges come to 9 the bench with a background of experiences, associations and viewpoints. This background 10 alone is seldom sufficient in itself to provide a reasonable basis for recusal.”
• “All judges come to 9 the bench with a background of experiences, associations and viewpoints. This background 10 alone is seldom sufficient in itself to provide a reasonable basis for recusal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).