Legal Opinion
In Re: Bellsouth Corporation, in Re: Terry Price and Lehr, Middlebrooks, Price & Proctor, P.C.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 2003No. 02-15362, 02-15445PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated cases, we are called upon to consider the appropriate course of action where a party is accused of contriving to engineer the recusal of a district judge by hiring a close relative of the judge as counsel. Petitioners seek a writ of mandamus compelling the district court to vacate its order disqualifying attorney Terry Price (“Price”) and his law firm, Lehr Middlebrooks Price & Proctor (“LMPP”), from representing BellSouth in a putative class-action race discrimination suit, Jenkins v. BellSouth Corp.
For the reasons that follow, we cannot conclude…
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