IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
ORDER
Canon 3C(1)(c) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges
and Advisory Opinion No. 57 direct federal judges to recuse
themselves in those cases in which they own stock in a parent
company whose subsidiary appears as a party.
Therefore, to facilitate the court’s timely compliance with
Canon 3C(1)(c) the United States District Court, Southern District
of Mississippi adopts the following procedural directive.
Any non-governmental corporate party to an
action in this court shall file a statement
identifying all its parent corporations and
listing any publicly held company that owns
10% or more of the party’s stock. A party
shall file the statement with its initial
pleading filed in the court and shall
supplement the statement within a reasonable
time of any change in the information.
This directive shall be effective from and after the date of
its adoption, November 22, 1999.
TOM S. LEE
Chief Judge
ORIGINAL ORDER FILED NOVEMBER 30, 1999.
