Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al.

Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit and Federal Circuit that federal judges have an obligation to disclose on the record information which the parties or their lawyers might consider relevant to the question of disqualification?

Do federal judges have an obligation to disclose on the record information about personal or professional relationships with a defendant or witness in a case where such information is explicitly requested by a party?

Do federal judges have an obligation to disclose on the record information about their past and current relationship to a disgraced former federal judge who is a defendant in a lawsuit along with his colleagues who retaliated against a litigant for disclosing the former federal judge’s misconduct and whose whistleblowing played a critical role in his downfall?

Does the Ninth Circuit’s decision that a District Court Judge was not required to recuse himself in a case where a defendant previously was the District Court’s lawyer and defended him in state and federal court in a personal capacity, in direct conflict with published precedent from the same District and other Circuits and state courts, constitute reversible error?

Did the the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that Younger abstention applied to a case premised on