Shepherdson v. Nigro

MEMORANDUM

WALDMAN, District Judge.

This is a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Plaintiff claims that while serving as a Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge, defendant violated her federal constitutional rights when he ruled, adversely to plaintiff, on a summary judgment motion in a lawsuit she had filed against her former employer, Local Union No. 401 of the International Association of Bridge Structural & Ornamental Ironwork-ers. The essence of plaintiffs claim is that Justice Nigro was constitutionally required to recuse himself because at the time the summary judgment motion was decided he had accepted…