Ou-Young
Ou-Young v. County of Santa Clara
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KUANG-BAO PAUL OU-YOUNG, Case No. 21-cv-07361-BLF
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
v. MOTION TO DISQUALIFY
CHRISTOPHER G. RUDY, et al., Re: ECF No. 34 Defendants.
12 Plaintiff Kuang-Bao P. Ou-Young has filed a motion to disqualify Judge Beth Labson Freeman from hearing this case. ECF No. 34. The motion was reassigned to the undersigned pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 144. ECF Nos. 35 & 36. The time to file an opposition or statement of non-opposition has passed, and none has been filed. The Court finds this matter suitable for disposition without oral argument. Fed. R. Civ. P. 78(b); Civil L.R. 7-1(b). Plaintiff cites Judge Freeman’s failure to hold a hearing on a motion to dismiss and failure to consider convening a three-judge court as grounds for her disqualification. But “judicial rulings alone almost never constitute a valid basis for a bias or partiality motion. . . . Almost invariably, they are proper grounds for appeal, not…