In Re Placid Oil Company, Placid Building & Service Company, and Paul A. Hope, as Trustee of the William Herbert Hunt Trust Estate

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Placid Oil Company, Placid Building and Service Company, and the William Herbert Hunt Trust Estate (whom we shall refer to collectively as Petitioners) petition this court for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Barefoot Sanders to recuse himself from any further proceedings in related cases in which Petitioners are plaintiffs. We deny the writ.

Petitioners filed two related suits in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas against twenty-three banks (Banks) that have made loans to Petitioners. The complaints seek damages, declaratory relief, and reformation…