United States Seventh Circuit - August 2001 Opinion Summaries

IN RE: DENNIS E. CARLSON

Bankruptcy Law
An unpaid contingency fee for settlement of a legal matter is a legal or equitable interest in property for purposes of 11 USC 541(a) and Illinois...

IN THE MATTER OF: SYNTHROID MARKETING LITIG.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
District judges are not entitled to block appellate review of their decisions by the expedient of denying party status to anyone who seems likely to...

BOSS v. PIERCE

Criminal Law & Procedure
For purposes of determining whether evidence was suppressed in violation of Brady, a witness' knowledge is not like a document, so a defense witness'...

HENDERSON v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where the district court fails to advise the mislabeling movant that his motion may be deemed a section 2255 motion and offer a chance to withdraw it,...

WHITEHEAD v. COWAN

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where the judge, counsel, and court reporter retired to chambers while the jury, defendant, and the victim's mother, who was on the witness stand,...

SMALL v. RICHARD WOLF MED. INSTRUMENTS CORP.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure
Where the district court affords little credibility to the evidence presented by the prevailing party regarding an attorney's market rate, and the...

STUTLER v. ILLINOIS DEP'T OF CORRS.

Labor & Employment Law
Just as a lateral transfer without a loss in benefits does not constitute an adverse employment action, petty behavior on the part of a supervisor is...

RITTENHOUSE v. BATTLES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where the jury instructions as a whole properly informed the jury in a criminal trial about its role, counsel's failure to object to some ambiguous...

ALEXANDER v. WISCONSIN DEP'T OF HEALTH & FAMILY SERVS.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence that several co-workers were bigots and that their bigotry made the work environment extremely difficult is insufficient to demonstrate that...

EDWARDS v. ILLINOIS BD. OF ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR

Civil Procedure
A claim that the Illinois State Bar violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by requiring plaintiff to provide medical records before grant of a...