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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ISRAEL MALDONADO RAMIREZ, Case No. 1:22-cv-01610-ADA-SAB (PC) 10 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR RECUSAL v. (ECF No. 11)

J. QUICK, et al.,

13 Defendants.

15 Plaintiff Israel Maldonado Ramirez is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to recuse Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone, filed March 9, 2023. 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). Section (b) of that statute sets forth a number of additional grounds for disqualification, including where the judge “has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party,” “personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding,” where “in private…