In re Disqualification of Park

{¶ 1} Craig T. Conley, counsel in the underlying cases, has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge Dixie Park from presiding over any further proceedings in case Nos. 195704 and 220841 in the Stark County Probate Court.

{¶ 2} Conley claims that Judge Park is a “long-time personal friend and former professional colleague” of Conley’s opposing counsel, Stanley R. Rubin, and therefore the judge has a “pro-Attorney Rubin bias and prejudice” in the underlying cases. To support this allegation, Conley claims that (1) in 1998, Rubin represented…