New Judge to Hapless Cook: That Whirlpool Range Is Going Nowhere

Some new judges find themselves having to stake out their positions on hot legal issues right off the bat. And that proved true for a newly appointed Northern District of Illinois judge too, who, as the subject of one of his first written opinions, weighed in on whether to grant an emergency order on the literally hot issue of a Whirlpool range oven.

“Stoves can give rise to emergencies. Grease fires. Gas leaks. Burnt fingers. Even a pumpkin cake gone wrong,” Judge Steven C. Seeger wrote in one of his inaugural opinions for the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...