United States v. Gary A. Greenough

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• concluding no recusal was necessary when a federal judge had “direct communi- cations” with a state court judge who was presiding over a related matter and when a newspaper article reported that the federal judge was “angry”
• affirming district court’s denial of a motion to recuse premised on unsupported newspaper reports
• “a judge, having been assigned to a case, should not recuse himself on unsupported, irrational, or highly tenuous speculation”
• “Section 455 does not require the judge to accept allegations by the moving party as true”
• “[I]f this occurred the price of maintaining the purity of the appearance of justice would be the power of the litigants or third parties to exercise a veto over the assignment of judges.”
• “Section 455 does not require the judge to accept allegations by the moving party as true. If a party could force recusal of a judge by factual allegations, the result would be a virtual ‘open season’ for recusal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).