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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JARED ANDREW MARTIN, No. 1:22-cv-00002-DAD-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

TO DISQUALIFY MAGISTRATE JUDGE

D. CASTILLO, (Doc. No. 32) Defendant.

16 Plaintiff Jared Andrew Martin is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On August 2, 2022, plaintiff filed a motion to disqualify the assigned magistrate judge. (Doc. No. 32.) A party may seek recusal/disqualification of a judge based on bias or prejudice. Whenever a party to any proceeding in 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. The party’s affidavit shall state the facts and the reasons for the belief that bias, or…