Shipco 2295, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.

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 non-party witness obtains a “stake” in the underlying action sufficient to warrant appellate review by standing in contempt
• holding that petitioners had no standing to invoke section 455 when there was no pending action before the district court
• holding that non-party witnesses “have no standing to invoke section 455” as “there is no pending action before Judge Ackerman in which the rights of the [non-party witnesses] are at issue”
• finding that Section 455(a) “requires only the objective appearance of bias, subsection (b)(1) requires bias-in-fact”
• finding that Section 455(a) “requires only the objective appearance of bias, subsection (b)(1) requires bias-in- fact”
• finding that Section 455(a) “requires only the objective appearance of bias [and] subsection (b)(1) requires bias-in-fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).