Heavyhitters v. Nike Inc.

MEMORANDUM**

Appellants challenge a multitude of rulings made by the district court in four consolidated cases concerning Nike’s refusal to contract with Heavyhitters. We affirm in part and dismiss in part.

1. Appellants claim that the district judge’s rulings were motivated by bias, but nothing they point to in the record supports such an inference. Everything to which appellants direct our attention is not, under Pesnell v. Arsenault and Liteky v. United States, a valid basis for such a claim:

“[Jjudicial rulings alone almost never constitute a valid basis for a bias or partiality motion. In…