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Smith v. Smith

Citations

  • 564 P.2d 1266
  • 115 Ariz. 299
  • 1977 Ariz. App. LEXIS 600

How courts have described this case

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  • “[T]he bias and prejudice necessary to disqualify a judge must arise from an extra-judicial source and not from what the judge has done in his [or her] participation in the case.”
  • ‘[I]f we were to hold as a matter of law that a party can obtain a disqualification of a sitting judge merely by filing suit against him, the orderly administration of judicial proceedings would be severely hampered and thwarted’

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Judges: Jacobson, Ogg, Froeb

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