{"id":11960,"date":"2025-11-09T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11960"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:40:24","slug":"motion-for-recusal-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11960","title":{"rendered":"Motion for Recusal Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A denial of a motion for recusal is an interlocutory order not subject to appeal.  It is also not error for a judge to preside at the hearing on the recusal motion, for the judge to refuse to allow himself to called as a witness in the recusal hearing, or for the judge to deny the motion to recuse when the only evidence of bias is rulings against the movant and the movant&#8217;s attorney. <em>Fetzer v. Fetzer<\/em>, 3 Fid.Rep.4th 249 (Berks C.D. 2025) (child custody proceeding), <em>appeal quashed sua sponte<\/em>, 1093 MDA 2025 (Pa. Super. 9\/12\/2025). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A denial of a motion for recusal is an interlocutory order not subject to appeal. It is also not error for a judge to preside at the hearing on the recusal motion, for the judge to refuse to allow himself &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-11960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-recusal-of-judge","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11962,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960\/revisions\/11962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}