Legal Opinion
Wessmann Ex Rel. Wessmann v. Boston School Committee
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 16, 1997No. Civ. Action 97-11923PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The plaintiff Sarah Wessmann (“Wessmann”) has filed a motion to recuse me from participating in the above litigation. She seeks my disqualification for two reasons: my former membership on the Board of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the Boston Bar Association (“the Lawyers Committee”) and my representation of the Concerned Black Educators of Boston (“CBEB”) in a prior case involving the desegregation of the Boston schools. See, e.g., Morgan v. Burke, 926 F.2d 86 (1st Cir.1991).
I find that the first argument has no merit.…
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