Miami Employees Federal Credit Union v. Turner (In Re Turner)

DECISION and ORDER RE MOTION AND AFFIDAVIT OF BIAS AND PREJUDICE

BURTON PERLMAN, Bankruptcy Judge.

Counsel for plaintiff has filed a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 144 and 455, seeking that we recuse ourselves in this case by reason of bias and prejudice. With the motion, counsel has filed his personal affidavit recounting his recollection of events at a pretrial conference in this discharge-ability adversary proceeding. Trial in this case was set for Wednesday, January 14, 1987 by notice sent October 30, 1986. The motion was filed January 6, 1987.

We deny the motion on a first ground that it…