(part 2) SCOTUSblog A constitutional duty to recuse?

SCOTUSblog A constitutional duty to recuse?: "The case grows out of the participation in a decision in State Farm’s favor, in an auto insurance coverage case, of Justice Lloyd Karmeier. The petition to the Court argues that Karmeier raised and spent more than $4.8 million to win a seat on the state court in November 2004. A sizable portion of that sum, the petition contends, came from individuals associated with State Farm, or with organizations of which it was a member or contributor. The petition says he thereafter participated, after refusing to recuse, in the State Farm ruling. His vote, the appeal argues, was decisive in a part of the split decision that spared State Farm from as much as $457 million in damages.

State Farm, which opposed the move to get Karmeier off the case, has 30 days to respond to the appeal."