In re Disqualification of McKay

{¶ 1} Joseph A. Farchione, counsel for defendants in the underlying case, Dr. Tara Shipman and Associates in Female Health, Inc., has filed an affidavit with the clerk of this court under R.C. 2701.03 seeking to disqualify Judge W. Wyatt McKay from presiding over any further proceedings in case No. 2006-CV-2992, now pending on plaintiffs’ motion for prejudgment interest in the Court of Common Pleas of Trumbull County.

{¶ 2} Farchione alleges that throughout this lengthy litigation, plaintiffs’ counsel have engaged in “deceptive manipulations of the law and fact in their arguments” and that…