United States v. Johnie M. Owens

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• stating that “[t]imeliness is an essential element of a recusal motion”
• “Parties cannot be allowed to create the basis for recusal by their own deliberate actions.”
• “courts have typically rejected recusal motions based on, and effectively created by, a litigant’s deliberate act of criticizing the judge or judicial system.”
• “To hold otherwise ... would invite litigants to test the waters with a particular judge and then to take steps to create recusal grounds if the waters proved uncomfortably hot.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).