Legal Opinion
In Re Sherwin-Williams Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 2010No. 10-1639PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Per curiam
In this petition for a writ of mandamus, Sherwin-Williams Company asks us to order District Judge Lynn Adelman to recuse himself from presiding over four cases in which it is a defendant. SherwinWilliams argues that a law review article co-written by Judge Adelman creates an appearance that the judge will decide the cases other than on the merits. Judge Adelman denied Sherwin-Williams’s motion for recusal in the district court, and we do the same for the petition for writ of mandamus.
The basis of Sherwin-Williams’s petition is a 2007 article Judge Adelman co-authored in response to criticism…
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