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Judge’s Failure to Recuse Himself Was an Abuse of Discretion/Plaintiffs’ Failure to Comply with a Condition Precedent Mandated Summary Judgment to Defendants

The Third Department determined the judge hearing a case concerning the construction of a casino and resort should have recused himself. The judge’s wife was in the county legislature and had voiced support of defendants’ position. In his decision granting summary judgment to the defendants, the judge stated to do otherwise would “violate public policy,” an issue which was not properly part of the case before him. However, the Third Department went on to consider the merits of the case. Plaintiffs’ failure to meet a condition precedent (concerning the financing of the project) by the specified date was an unambiguous breach of the contract, mandating summary judgment in favor of the defendants:

Considering the irrelevancy of [the judge’s] comments to the issues before the court and the parallels between them and the public comments of [his wife] in support of [defendants’] casino proposal, [the judge’s] inclusion of such inherently legislative and policy considerations as a basis for his order displays a striking lack of “sensitivity to the aroma of favoritism [that] such a favorable disposition could engender” … . Under the circumstances, it seems to us that [the judge] should have recognized that this was a situation in which his “impartiality might reasonably be questioned” (22 NYCRR 100.3 [E] [1]), and, therefore, we must conclude that his failure to recuse himself constituted a clear abuse of discretion … . Concord Assoc., L.P. v EPT Concord, LLC, 2015 NY Slip Op 06393, 3rd Dept 7-30-15

 

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