Golden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA LISA KAYE GOLDEN Case Nos.: 20-cv-856 DMS (NLS)

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO RECUSE THE

MARGARET M. MANN,

UNDERSIGNED

Defendant. 15 16 Pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s Motion to Recuse the undersigned. (ECF No. 11.) The matter is fully briefed and submitted. Plaintiff has a number of Bankruptcy Appeals pending in this Court and moves to recuse the undersigned based on alleged actions undertaken in those appeals. The facts of those underlying appeals are set out in the Court’s prior order denying Plaintiff’s Motion to Recuse. See Order Denying Motion to Recuse (hereinafter “Order”), 19-CV-2178-DMS-NLS, ECF No. 15, at 1–3. Plaintiff now moves to recuse the undersigned based on alleged bias arising out of: (1) the undersigned’s professional relationship with the Honorable Margaret Mann, who is overseeing Plaintiff’s bankruptcy case; (2) the undersigned’s refusal to…