River West, Inc. v. Nickel

How courts have described this case

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

• describing the due to delay exception for denying disqualification as “narrow”
• “when the substantial relationship of the matters is established, the inquiry ends”
• “Because of the law’s concern for unhampered counsel on both sides of the litigation, 18 ‘mere delay’ in making a disqualification motion is not dispositive. The delay must be extreme in 19 terms of time and consequence.”
• “[T]he ‘substantial relationship’ test is a strict, prophylactic rule.”
• finding a delay of over three years extreme

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).