U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge John K. Olson of Fort Lauderdale. Photo: Jill Kahn/ALM.
U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga in the Southern District of Florida threw out three rulings in a long-running case over claims that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Olson should have recused himself because his then-fiance accepted a job with the firm representing one of the parties.
Defendants in a 2008 adversary proceeding brought by trustee Soneet R. Kapila claimed Olson was not a neutral figure because the trustee had hired the firm that employed his then-fiance. They filed a motion to vacate three of Olson’s rulings against them, claiming the judge’s spouse George Steve Fender, a Miami bankruptcy and commercial litigator, had joined Ruden, McClosky, Smith Schuster & Russell’s bankruptcy practice group during litigation. The couple would later wed in 2010.
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