Application of Randolph Phillips

Phillips, a litigant pro se in a matter that was decided by this court in 1968, has now brought what purports to be a motion requesting this court to require a lawyer, who was his adversary in the prior appeal, “to show cause why he should not be suspended or disbarred as a member of the bar of this Court.” The charge is that the putative respondent stated ex parte to a then active judge of this court that his client preferred that the judge not sit upon the panel in the prior appeal. The judge, after consultation with his colleagues, did not recuse himself. There is no allegation that the…