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· 3/21/1966

United States v. S & A Co.

Citations

  • 383 U.S. 942
  • 86 S. Ct. 1194

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that recused judge's \power is limited to performing ministerial duties necessary to transfer the case to another judge\
  • holding that a judge should not have continued to enter non-ministerial orders after announcing his intention to disqualify himself because his daughter worked for one of the parties
  • “Once a judge has disqualified himself, he or she may enter no further orders in the case.”
  • if a judge adjudicates any issue after his recusal, that order is void
  • “Once a judge has disqualified himself, he or she may enter no further orders in the case[, with power thus] limited to performing ministerial duties necessary to transfer the case to another judge (including the entering of ‘housekeeping’ orders).” (citations omitted)

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