I. Is a judge disqualified to hear cases in which parties are represented by an attorney who was a judicial candidate in opposition to the judge in a recent election? Answer: No, absent the existence of either personal bias or prejudice or extraordinary circumstances creating a reasonable question as to the judge’s impartiality. II. Is a judge disqualified to hear cases in which parties are represented by attorneys who supported a judicial candidate who opposed the judge in a recent election as a result of allegations of bias that are denied by the judge? Answer: No, absent the existence of extraordinary circumstances creating a reasonable question as to the judge’s impartiality.

DISQUALIFICATION WHEN FORMER POLITICAL OPPONENT OR SUPPORTER OF POLITICAL OPPONENT APPEARS AS  COUNSEL IN CASE