Is a federal district judge required to recuse himself from hearing a case?
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The following excerpt is from St. Hilaire v. Central Arizona College, 889 F.2d 1096 (9th Cir. 1989):
The district court judge was not required to recuse himself in this case. A judge is not disqualified from hearing a case because of a litigant's intemperate and scurrilous attack. United States v. Studley, 783 F.2d 934, 940 (1986).
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