While the reviewability of a judicial disqualification decision must be analyzed in terms of the underlying basis for the judicial disqualification motion, the statutory grounds for judicial disqualification are made of no effect when analyzed based on the suitability of mandamus, the collateral order doctrine, and certification under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) as devices to gain immediate appellate review, if the judge's affirmative duty to recuse himself was triggered but not a factor or appropriately weighed in the decision.

Whether a federal district court judge must recuse himself under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) when a party alleges potential judicial bias or prejudice in a civil proceeding