City of Youngstown v. Grenga

{¶ 1} Defendant, Joseph Robert Grenga, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking the disqualification of Judge James C. Evans in case No. 08-CV-388 in the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County. Grenga asserts that Judge Evans’s assignment to the case “presents a conflict of interest and has all the appearances of impropriety and prejudice.” According to Grenga, Judge Evans “did voluntarily recuse himself’ but thereafter continued to act in the case. Because of the alleged recusal, Judge Evans assertedly lacked power to refer the case to a new…