Only rarely do judges find it necessary to disqualify themselves from a case. But Alabama is not given to half measures; the state's entire supreme court has just "recused" (disqualified) itself from a legal hassle involving one of its members, Justice Robert T. Simpson III, who hit a street light pole while driving home in Montgomery one night last April.
The accident seriously injured Simpson and killed his wife. The judge filed $100,000 suits against the city and the Alabama Power Co., charging them with failure to keep the light lit. At a pretrial examination, power-company lawyers not only tried...
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