Whether the district court in corpore had to recuse itself due to an alleged appearance of bias.
No serious ground of bias was shown; the mere fact that the debtor is the brother of a clerk with no decision-making power did not justify recusal of the whole court.
Recusal is exceptional and requires objective facts creating a serious appearance of partiality. The clerk had no judicial decision-making role, and the parties themselves had not requested recusal or commented in support of it.