Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim

I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respondent’s attorneys well in excess of the statutory limit ($1500) that required her disqualification and she declined to recuse herself and failed to disclose this to Petitioner for over a year thereby depriving him of the exercise of his peremptory challenge as provided to him by California law, and then refused to recuse herself upon motion, instead striking Petitioner’s disqualification motion and later entering judgment on child custody against Petitioner. The question presented is whether Judge Greenberg’s refusal to recuse herself and failure to timely and accurately disclose the campaign contributions to the Petitioner violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.