Court Opinion

ID: 9478903
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:02:03.55484+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:41.456285
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM:
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to review an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Costantino, J., denying a motion to recuse.
We place less significance than does Judge Newman in his dissent on the district judge’s gratuitous remark, “I don’t rec[]use myself from anything.” We believe that the judge exercised discretion in deciding whether he should recuse himself in this matter.
Therefore, the petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking recusal of the district judge from a pending criminal case, is denied.