Key legal question
Whether prior participation of Judge Jean-Pierre Pagan in earlier psychiatric admission appeals required recusal in the interdiction appeal.
Extracted holding
The judge's earlier involvement in separate proceedings concerning involuntary psychiatric admission did not create a disqualifying bias in the later interdiction case.
Extracted reasoning
Recusal is required when the judge previously dealt with the same case. Here, the earlier and later proceedings were distinct, even if related and involving some similar medical questions; they had different objects, legal bases, and functions.