‘Tip of the Spear’: State Farm Moves to Disqualify the Hursh Judge Over a ‘Kidnapping’ Analogy
State Farm asked Oklahoma County Judge Amy Palumbo on Oct. 29 to disqualify herself from Hursh v. State Farm, citing her remarks over the past ten months and, according to declarations from three of its lawyers, an Oct. 26 analogy comparing its in-house lawyers’ review of the Exhibit 133 roof memo to a lawyer advising kidnappers. In her own Oct. 28 email order, she called the Hursh jury trial ‘the actual tip of the spear.’ The motion is set for hearing Nov. 13.