Ritenour v. Carrington Mortgage Services LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding an isolated incident of the defendant making a remark to the plaintiff when he was angry and they were divorcing was not harassment under the circumstances
• recognizing \a trial judge must take special care to craft questions in such a manner to avoid being perceived as an advocate for any side of a dispute\
• noting the limitations on a trial judge's authority to ask questions to elicit material facts on his or her own initiative
• finding the second Silver prong not satisfied because the defendant's single remark to the plaintiff during the pendency of their divorce was an \isolated incident devoid of any menacing behavior by [the] defendant\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).