Baker & Hostetler LLP v. United States Department of Commerce

On Motion for Recusal

KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Baker Hostetler submitted a motion requesting my recusal under the federal recusal statute if, in my prior work for President George W. Bush, I “personally participated on issues relating to the Softwood lumber dispute between the United States and Canada.” Mot. at 2; see 28 U.S.C. § 455. I denied the motion because recusal is not supported by or appropriate under either the specific provisions of § 455(b) or the general provision of § 455(a).

In this Freedom of Information Act litigation, Baker Hostetler seeks certain documents relating…