Hassett

Filed 4/20/22; Modified and Certified for Publication 5/13/22 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(El Dorado) ----

ROBERT J. HASSETT, C092212

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. SC20180100)

v.

PATRICIA G. OLSON et al.,

Defendants and Appellants;

CODY LEE BASS et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

Defendants Patricia G. Olson and Jimmy Dastur (defendants) appeal from an order disqualifying Steven G. Bailey, a former El Dorado County Superior Court judge, from representing them in this lawsuit filed by plaintiff Robert J. Hassett. The trial court relied

1 on rule 1.12 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, 1 which provides in relevant part that “a lawyer shall not represent anyone in connection with a matter in which the lawyer participated personally and substantially as a judge . . . unless all parties to the proceeding give informed written consent.” (Rule 1.12(a).) The court found that Bailey’s participation as a judge was personal and substantial in rendering decisions in two other cases involving the validity of…