Recusal Requests Look Like a Blip, Not a Trend: Delaware Brief

Recusal Requests Look Like Blip, Not Trend

There’s an old saying among reporters that a trend is anything your editor hears about three times. Here’s another, newer journalism doctrine: When Elon Musk tosses a ball in the vicinity of corporate law, every Delaware Chancery Court watcher must give chase.

Those principles intersected over the past few weeks when two unusual judicial disqualification motions followed on the heels of Musk’s unprecedented effort to get his final batch of Delaware cases reassigned. Both bids, targeting Vice Chancellor Bonnie W. David’s past career at Skadden, cited an ABA ethics opinion issued last ...