United States Ninth Circuit

Facts unknown to a district court judge (that his brother-in-law acted as a lawyer in the proceeding) required his disqualification prior to trial in a personal injury action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2002
• Decided 01/09/2003
• Published 01/09/2003

Judges

• Before TROTT, T.G. NELSON and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sue Ann Love,Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Great Falls, Montana, for the defendant-appellant., Francis X. Clinch, Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, P.C., Great Falls, Montana, for the defendant-appellant., Joseph P. Cosgrove, Hoyt & Blewett, Great Falls, Montana, for the plaintiff-appellee.