Parenteau v. Jacobson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a courtroom has no place for a judge whose impartiality in a matter may be reasonably questioned, even if he is not the fact-finder”
• “Possible consequences of [a judge’s] recusal on the commencement of the trial are immaterial”
• if all judges in Boston Housing Court recused themselves, judge from Hampden Housing Court or from a different department of the Trial Court could have been assigned to hear case
• possible that all judges in Boston Housing Court would recuse themselves

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).