Can a judge before whom the matter is pending have a personal bias or prejudice against him?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Agha-Khan v. Bank of Am., No. 1:17-cv-00011-DAD (E.D. Cal. 2017):
a district court makes and files a timely and sufficient affidavit that the judge before whom the matter is pending has a personal bias or prejudice either against him or in favor of any adverse party, such judge shall proceed no further therein, but another judge shall be assigned to hear such proceeding." 28 U.S.C. 144; see also Pesnell v. Arsenault, 543 F.3d 1038, 1043 (9th Cir. 2008).
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