Legal Opinion
Patricia L. Preston La Juan M. Mitchell Leonard Jamar Preston v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 16, 1991No. 88-6166PublishedCited by 198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Patricia A. Preston, La Juan M. Mitchell, and Leonard Jamar Preston (collectively, “the heirs”), heirs of Leonard Preston, Jr. (“Preston”), appeal from a judgment in favor of the United States in a wrongful death action brought under the Federal Torts Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671, et seq. The heirs’ sole contention on appeal is that the district court erred in denying two motions for recusal of Judge J. Spencer Letts of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The first recusal motion, which is the only motion we…
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