established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 743, 131 S.Ct. 2074, 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011) (qualified immunity “protects all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)). Because the district court properly dismissed the action for failure to state a claim, Player had no right to a jury trial. We reject as without merit Player’s contention that Magistrate Judge Bush and District Judge Lodge should have recused themselves from this case solely because they graduated from the University of Idaho. See United States ex rel. Hochman v. Nackman, 145 F.3d 1069, 1076 (9th Cir. 1998) (<HOLDING>). AFFIRMED. ** This disposition is not
holding that where appellant moved to recuse trial judge from deciding the motion for new trial the judge of the administrative district was required to designate a judge to hear the recusal motion holding that recusal is not required when judge has minimal alumni contacts with a defendant university holding that party who had sought disqualification of the judge who heard his cause only from the assignment judge and not the judge himself could not appropriately raise recusal issue on appeal holding that recusal was required based on newspaper report of interview with trial judge holding recusal not required