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Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Does the American law still not have an auto-recuse system that does not even put you on a case of a company you own stock of?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

LOL what? they actually allow people to literally shop for an agreeable judge

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I don't know, but considering the US's track record...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Of course not, that would make the justice system a little more fair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does not. You need to ask a judge to recuse themselves and if that doesn’t work ask the court above them to reassign. If they even take it up. Usually the biased judge hears the case then it gets appealed. Which wastes a lot of time and a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which wastes a lot of time and a lot of money.

The American way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The Texas way. This lawsuit is pure SLAPP. Texas does not have an anti-SLAPP law, and Musk went judge shopping for this specific asshole.