A federal district judge in Washington won’t recuse from a regulatory fight between tobacco companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a Jan. 13 opinion, the judge ruled that advice that his former law firm gave to an anti-tobacco group was “too attenuated” from the case to disqualify him.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta warned that if he did step down, it “would encourage inappropriate judge-shopping by future litigants.”
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