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US
/ˌɹɪkˈjuz/
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VERB
- challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
- disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
How To Use recuse In A Sentence
- Number two, he's very bombastic in his motion papers, saying the prosecutors should be recused or the prosecutor should be substituted or thrown off the case.
- Mr Justice Newman had concluded that the District Judge should have recused himself and that the Defendant should have recognised the strength and gravity of the impact of this.
- Justices would be recused by a vote of the Court, with individual members opting to vote for recusal based on their desired outcome in the case.
- Because her previous job as solicitor general involved her in formulating government positions in cases now before the Supreme Court, she has recused herself from about half of the docketed cases. Free Speech Tested Anew in Digital Age
- One of the plaintiffs in that litigation, the conservationist Sierra Club, has filed a motion to recuse Scalia from further participation in the case.
- B. 's conjectural emendation, "recuse" for "secure," but that, unless my memory and Ayscough are both deceptive, the word "recuse" is nowhere to be found in Shakspeare; nor, as far as I know, in any dramatist of the age. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
- I have increasingly seen cases in which applications to recuse a judge have been made in circumstances where three or four years ago no one would have dreamt of it.
- Because of her work as solicitor general, Kagan was recused from the court's second case of the day, and she will be absent more than present during its first two-week session. Justice Elena Kagan a comfortable and active questioner in first case
- He also said that some of the explanations that he and his supporters gave for his failure to recuse from the Vanguard case in 2002 -- such as a “computer glitch” or the fact that his promise to the Committee was somehow time-limited -- were not in fact the true reasons that he failed to recuse himself from the 2002 case. The Courts
- While judges are required to "recuse" themselves from presiding over a trial where there is a conflict-of-interest -- let's say the judge owns a significant amount of stock in a company owned by the defendant -- there is no parallel definition of conflict of interest when it comes to lawmakers or regulators. Jane White: Where Are the Tea Party Traitors When It Comes to Financial Reform and the Revolving Door?