Sao Paulo State of Federative Republic of Brazil v. American Tobacco Co.

How courts have described this case

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• impartiality of judge could not be reasonably questioned based on his erroneous listing as attorney on motion to file amicus curiae brief
• impartiality of judge could not be reasonably questioned based on his erroneous listing as attorney on motion to file amicus curiae brief
• “This standard requires,that we take the perspective of a fully informed third-party observer who ‘understand^] all the relevant facts’ and has ‘examined the record and the law.’” (citation omitted)
• “This standard requires that we take the perspective of a fully informed third-party observer who ‘understand[s] all the relevant facts’ and has ‘examined the record and the law.’” (citation omitted)
• statute did not require recusal of judge whose name was added mistakenly and without his knowledge to a pro forma motion to file an amicus brief in a similar suit against some of the same defendants prior to his appointment to the bench

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).