Trial rules of Judge Kevin Dowd: you settle - or else

During the ex parte Mokay trial Judge Kevin Dowd has stated, twice, that the case should not have gone "that far" and should have settled long ago.

As you may notice, it is page 5 of the transcript, before any evidence was in, before the trial began.

The case was simply pre-judged by Judge Dowd.  In a litigation that goes on for 8 years, because the defendant keeps trying to have courts follow the law, the defendant should have settled long time ago.  Since he did not - the judge will make sure such a defendant will suffer.

But, coercing a litigant into a settlement, expressing on record the court's opinion, before a bench trial, that the plaintiffs (who did not come to court to attend the trial) are entitled to damages, before ANY proof was in, is not only pre-judging a case in violation of Defendant's due process of law, but also gross judicial misconduct.

Does anybody in the NYS Commission for Judicial Conduct care for that?