Lenk

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KENNETH LAWRENCE LENK, Case No. 20-cv-08094-BLF (HSG)

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION FOR RECUSAL

v. Re: Dkt. No. 62 MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS, INC., Defendant.

12 Pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for recusal of United States District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. Dkt. No. 62. For the reasons below, the Court DENIES the motion. This is Plaintiff’s third time seeking to recuse Judge Freeman in various cases filed against his former employer, Defendant Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (“MPS”). Plaintiff has filed four successive lawsuits against MPS. All have been dismissed.1 Plaintiff first sought to recuse Judge Freeman in his second case, Lenk II. Judge Freeman squarely addressed and rejected Plaintiff’s argument regarding her husband’s prior employment at Jones Day. See Lenk II, No. 16-cv-02625 (Dkt. No 126). Plaintiff tried again in his third case, Lenk III, advancing the same argument, and Judge…