The losing lawyer in last summer’s acrimonious, heavily publicized child custody battle between pop star Usher Raymond and his ex-wife launched a crusade against the Fulton County judge who ruled in Usher’s favor that has escalated to encompass the entire Fulton Superior bench.
In the seven months since Fulton Superior Court Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane awarded custody of the ex-couple’s two young children to Usher, Tameka Raymond’s lawyer, Lisa West, has successfully pushed the judge to recuse from eight cases in which the lawyer is counsel, starting with Lane’s surprise recusal from the Raymond case in December. West had repeatedly asked the judge to recuse from the Raymond case before then, saying she was biased in favor of opposing counsel because of his contributions to her campaign, but Lane had turned her down, saying there was no legal basis.
