Legal Opinion
Timothy Blixseth v. Yellowstone Mountain Club, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 4, 2015No. 12-35986PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
In a recusal motion, Timothy Blixseth and his attorneys hurled nineteen accusations of misconduct at a bankruptcy judge who had ruled against Blixseth. In a forty-seven page opinion, the judge found the accusations to be meritless. In re Yellowstone Mountain Club, LLC, No. 08-61570-11, 2011 WL 766979 (Bankr.D.Mont. Feb. 25, 2011). The district court affirmed, as did we, concluding that Blixseth’s accusations were “a transparent attempt to wriggle out of an unfavorable decision by smearing the reputation of the judge who made it.” Blixseth v. Yellowstone Mountain Club, LLC, 742 F.3d 1215,…
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