Pfeiffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 EDWARD N. THOMAS, Case No. 1:20-cv-01131-NONE-HBK Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR RECUSAL

v. (Doc. No. 13) CHRISTIAN PFEIFFER, et al.,

Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Edward N. Thomas is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1983. On January 22, 2021, Plaintiff moved to recuse Magistrate Judge Jeremy D. Peterson. (Doc. No. 13). Judge Peterson had previously been assigned to this case before it was reassigned to the undersigned on November 17, 2020. (Doc. No. 9). Federal law provides that “[a]ny justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” 28 U.S.C. § 455(a). When a judge “has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party,” “personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding,” where “in private practice he served as lawyer in the…