Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: 36 arising under Section 455(a) (aee Pet. Br. 13 n.6), has also held that "a judge should not disqualify him- self solely on the basis of prior judicial rul lings made during the course of the litigation. Ouachito Nat'l Bant Tosco Corp., 686 F.2d 1300 the court explained, [i]t should he self-evident that adverse rulings in themselves do not create judicial partial- ity Ibid. The legislative history of the 1974 Act provides further support for the concl usion that adverse rul- ings are ordinarily an insufficient hasis for seeking recusal under Section 455(a) The committee re- ports accom panying the 1974 AC explicitly cautioned against perm itting recusal on such grounds [I]n assossing the reasonablenes challenge to his impartialit each judge must be alert avoid the possibility that those w ...
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