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Wilson v. Wilson

Citations

  • 987 S.W.2d 555
  • 1998 Tenn. App. LEXIS 612
  • 1998 WL 557609

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that it “goes without saying that a trial before a biased or prejudicial fact finder is a denial of due process”
  • holding that actual prejudice is not required to support recusal
  • stating procedural safeguards set forth in Rule 65 may be ignored in domestic relations cases if trial court deems it “just and proper”
  • “Bias or prejudice in the disqualifying sense must stem from an extrajudicial source and not from what the judge hears or sees during the trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Ben H. Cantrell

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