Cohen

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JONATHAN COHEN, Case No.: 23-CV-912 JLS (KSC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION ON

v. ISSUE OF RECUSAL

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, (ECF No. 7) Defendant. 16 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff Jonathan Cohen’s Motion on Issue of Recusal (“Mot.,” ECF No. 7). Plaintiff requests that the undersigned be recused from this action because “Plaintiff has an immediate family member who held an externship position” in the undersigned’s chambers “several years ago.” Mot. at 4. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455, “[a]ny justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” See also Harper v. Lugbauer, No. C 11-01306 JW, 2012 WL 734167, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 6, 2012) (“[R]ecusal is appropriate where ‘a reasonable person with knowledge of all the facts would conclude that the judge’s impartiality might…