Terry Lynn Nichols v. Wayne E. Alley, District Judge, United States of America, Real Party in Interest

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• holding that, even in the absence of impropriety, the judge presiding over the initial trial of the Oklahoma City bombers had to be recused because (1) his court was one block away from the explosion, (2
• noting that the extrajudicial source doctrine is but one factor in the disqualification analysis
• granting mandamus relief and ordering recusal of district judge whose courthouse and chambers were damaged by bomb allegedly set off by defendants at nearby federal building
• explaining “that a judge has as strong a duty to sit when there is no legitimate reason to recuse”
• noting 28 U.S.C. § 455 is not “intended to bestow veto power over judges or to be used as a judge shopping device”
• granting mandamus relief and ordering recusal of district judge whose courthouse and chambers were damaged by bomb allegedly set off by defendants at nearby federal building

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