Da Silva Moore: Plaintiffs Petition for Writ of Certiorari on Question of Recusal

It was reported this week that the Plaintiffs in this case have filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court seeking an answer to the question:  “Should a court of appeals review a judge’s denial of a motion to recuse de novo or for an abuse of discretion?”  For those who don’t recall, the plaintiffs in this case sought Magistrate Judge Peck’s recusal following his approval of Defendant’s predictive coding protocol.  That motion was denied, and the denial was later affirmed by both the District Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  Now, Plaintiffs argue that the standard of review applied by the Second Circuit was too deferential and that the issue should have been reviewed “de novo.”

For more information on this interesting development, click here to read Victor Li’s article “ ‘Da Silva Moore’ Goes to Washington,” published yesterday by Law Technology News.

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