Tarpin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CARINA CONERLY, et al., No. 2:22-cv-01525-TLN-CKD PS Plaintiffs, v. ORDER SHARIF TARPIN, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, who proceeds in this action without counsel, has moved for the undersigned to recuse. (ECF No. 9.) Plaintiff’s recusal motion is insufficient, and is denied. Legal Standard Federal law allows a judge to recuse from a matter based on a question of partiality:

Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. He shall also disqualify himself . . . [w]here he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts 23 concerning the proceeding . . . . 28 U.S.C. 455(a), (b)(1). A party may seek recusal of a judge based on bias or prejudice: Whenever a party to any proceeding in a district court makes and files a timely and…