Court Opinion

ID: 9465353
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:44:13.735135+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:08.470350
License: Public Domain

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
Some rules of automatic disqualification go beyond what is necessary to preserve justice and public confidence, and their rigorous application even may retard achievement of those ends. In this case, however, the Commissioner who authored the opinion had participated in previous court proceedings involving the same parties. In those proceedings he contended for adoption of a principle that is critical to this case. I have no hesitation in saying this is unacceptable, see, e. g., Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. CAB, 102 U.S.App.D.C. 391, 254 F.2d 90 (1958), and I therefore concur in the judgment of the court.