(PC) Ramirez v. Director All Hospital

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ISRAEL MALDONADO RAMIREZ, Case No. 1:22-cv-01642-ADA-SAB (PC) 10 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REMOVE MAGISTRATE JUDGE v. BOONE 12 DIRECTOR ALL HOSPITAL, et al., (ECF Nos. 17, 18, 19) 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 the undersigned Magistrate Judge, filed April 12, 2023. The Court finds an opposition by Defendants to be unnecessary. 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 22 disqualify himself ... [w]here he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning…