A recent decision by a federal appeals court in Atlanta may make it more difficult to challenge laws that govern judges’ decisions to recuse, including those proposed in a bill pending at the Georgia Legislature.
The March 6 decision by a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rebuffed a challenge to a Florida judicial ethics rule. But it may have bearing on Georgia House Bill 601, which allows parties to force a judge’s recusal in cases where lawyers or parties on the other side have crossed a bright line in financial support to a judge’s campaign.
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