( July 29, 2026, 9:02 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana recused a magistrate judge overseeing a lawsuit filed by a group of residents and property owners of a Baton Rouge-area subdivision against two Exxon entities over property damages and injuries allegedly caused by hazardous waste contamination because the magistrate judge’s wife represents the defendants in a similar case involving overlapping issues that is pending before another section of the court....