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Quite frankly, Harry, I think that most if not all of the Judges are probably quite capable of dealing with any biases they may have. Before I had looked at Steve's links I had thought it was stretching things to even raise the issue, as all Judges are human beings and have their biases. But part of being a Judge is learning to deal with this, and I think the vast majority succeed for the most part. However, given this level of pecuniary interest, I think it is legitimate to raise the question, and for each Judge to consider it. It may well be that it is impossible to avoid a perception of bias in this situation. I can't conceive of the situation where all judges recuse themselves, and don't know how the law would deal with this situation.
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