Opinion ID: 1872176
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Heading: united states supreme court policy

Text: MCR 2.003(B)(6) is consistent with the policy of the United States Supreme Court, which requires recusal in cases in which, with regard to a justice's spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either the justice or the justice's spouse, or the spouse of such a person, the litigation is in effect `his' or `her' [i.e., the relative's] case; in which the amount of the relative's compensation could be substantially affected by the outcome; or in which appearances on behalf of parties are made by firms in which our relatives are partners, unless we have received from the firm written assurance that income from Supreme Court litigation is, on a permanent basis, excluded from our relatives' partnership shares. [6] Again, none of these circumstances obtains in the instant case with regard to our spouses.