Brown v. Chappelle

*459ORDER AND JUDGMENT **

Bobby R. Baldock, Circuit Judge

Plaintiff Leslie Brown, Jr. is a party to a civil action pending in Oklahoma state court. The initial state-court judge assigned to his case recused. Afterward, Defendant Carlos Chappelle—at the time the Presiding Judge of the county in which Plaintiff brought his state case—reassigned Plaintiffs case to a new state-court judge. Plaintiff now contends that Defendant lacked the authority to reassign his case because Defendant was “disqualified by law from participating in any case which Plaintiff might be ’ involved in because of a previous…