Pepsico, Inc., and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. v. Honorable Thomas R. McMillen Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

On June 3, 1985, the defendants in an antitrust suit pending before Judge McMil-len in the Northern District of Illinois petitioned us under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 for a writ of mandamus directing the judge to recuse himself from presiding in the case. At the time the petition was filed, Judge McMillen had merely indicated informally that he would not recuse himself; no formal motion of recusal had been filed or acted on. We suspended consideration to give the defendants a chance to file, and the judge to rule on, the motion. The judge denied the formal motion, the parties…