Joseph

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 RHAWN JOSEPH, Case No. 19-cv-01294-RMI

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST

v. FOR RECUSAL OR

DISQUALIFICATION

CITY OF SAN JOSE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 156 Defendants.

13 Now pending before the court is Plaintiff’s “Demand for Voluntary Recusal” (dkt. 156), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455. The document is remarkably short in that it consists of only seven sentences arranged into five numbered paragraphs. In essence, Plaintiff suggests – in conclusory fashion and without providing any hint of detail – that the undersigned: “has consistently demonstrated bias in the case”; that the undersigned has “engaged in conduct so dishonest and divorced from reality [] that it shocks even other attorneys who find this behavior [] inexplicable and astonishing”; that the undersigned has “consistently engaged in conduct that violates” judicial ethics cannons as well as Plaintiff’s constitutional…