In re Disqualification of Corrigall Jones

{¶ 1} Scott Perlmuter, counsel for relator in the underlying case, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Amy Corrigall Jones from presiding over any further proceedings in case No. CV 2009-04-3107, a public-records action now pending for trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County. Relator, Robert G. Smith, has also filed an affidavit, and Perlmuter has filed a supplemental affidavit.

{¶ 2} Perlmuter alleges that Judge Corrigall Jones is partial to respondent, the city of Akron. Specifically, Perlmuter claims that on October…