Billy Ray JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Etc., Et Al., Defendants-Appellees

In this Title VII suit, the district court, after denying a motion for recusal alleging personal bias, granted summary judgment for defendants on the ground that the remedy for plaintiff’s claims was restricted to enforcement of a consent decree in a prior section 1983 class action. We affirm.

The two comments of the district judge that plaintiff asserts as evidence of personal bias of the trial judge were made during another judicial proceeding. They do not show any personal bias, “let alone the ‘pervasive bias’ that must be shown to disqualify a judge for his statements made in a judicial…