United States v. Clay
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the order of the district court denying Defendants' requests for reduced sentences following their convictions stemming from their participation in a drug conspiracy...
View ArticleHuff v. Buttigieg
The Seventh Circuit reversed the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and dismissing Plaintiff's claims that the FAA violated...
View ArticleStarkey v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Inc.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court, holding that Plaintiff, a guidance counselor at a Catholic high school, was a minister and that the ministerial exception barred of all...
View ArticleJokich v. Rush University Medical Center
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the district judge entering summary judgment for Rush University Medical Center on all claims brought by Dr. Peter Jokich under Title VII of the Civil...
View ArticleREXA, Inc. v. Chester
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment to Defendants on all claims asserted against them, including misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of...
View ArticleGarcia-Marin v. Garland
Marin entered the U.S. illegally as a child in 1988 and was removed within months. He illegally reentered, was ordered removed in 1997, and was removed to Mexico. He illegally reentered, returned to...
View ArticleUnited States v. Prado
Officers found nine firearms in Prado’s home: five were stolen and one had an obliterated serial number. Prado pled guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). The...
View ArticleCooper v. Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, Inc.
The Seventh Circuit vacated the fee award entered by the district court in this dispute over attorney fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs under consumer-protection statutes where damages are modest...
View ArticleCooper v. Retrieval Masters Creditors
The Seventh Circuit reversed the judgment of the district court in this (Cooper II) lawsuit brought by Jack Cooper against Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau (RMCB) asserting an additional violation...
View ArticleBurke v. Boeing Co.
In this putative class action filed shortly after two fatal crashes of new Boeing 737 MAX airliners led to a worldwide grounding of those planes and a halt to production, resulting to a significant...
View ArticleAnimal Legal Defense Fund v. Special Memories Zoo LLC
The Seventh District remanded this case brought under the Endangered Species Act's citizen-suit provision, 16 U.S.C. 1540(g)(1), for mistreatment of endangered and threatened animals at a Wisconsin...
View ArticleMayor & City Council of Baltimore v. AbbVie Inc.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing this complaint alleging that certain patents related to the medicine Humira and the settlement of litigation about them...
View ArticleCage v. Harper
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the district court entering summary judgment to Defendants and dismissing this complaint brought by Plaintiff, the former general counsel for Chicago State...
View ArticleUnited States v. Fierro
The Seventh Circuit affirmed Defendants' convictions for arson stemming from their participation in riots in Madison, Wisconsin following the shooting of a Black man by a police officer in Kenosha,...
View ArticleWatts v. Kidman
The Seventh Circuit held that district courts may make the decision whether to recruit counsel for an otherwise pro se litigant under 28 U.S. 1915(e)(1) based, in part, on considerations of the...
View ArticleHero v. Lake County Election Bd.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing this action challenging the conduct of the Lake County Election Board, holding that the Election Board did not violate Joseph...
View ArticleLyberger v. Snider
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the order of the district court granting summary judgment to Defendants and dismissing Plaintiffs' claims that three police officers unlawfully stopped, searched, and...
View ArticleUnited States v. Dickerson
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court imposing an above-Guidelines sentence of eighty-four months after Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm,...
View ArticleWord Seed Church v. Village of Homewood
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court denying the motion filed by the Word Seed Church after the district court dismissed this suit for lack of standing, holding that Word...
View ArticleRoberts v. LeJeune
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241 challenging his money-laundering convictions, holding...
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