| Description | Date | Docket # |
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US v. PEARMANUnited States Seventh Circuit
Bankruptcy Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Property Law & Real Estate
A sentence enhancement for bankruptcy fraud, based on level of intended loss, was improperly imposed where no basis existed for a finding that...
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07/25/2002 | 01-3488 |
US v. FARRUnited States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of a third motion to continue a trial (raised on the morning of the trial) was not an abuse of discretion, and defendant failed to show that...
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07/24/2002 | 01-2983 |
LABORER'S PENSION FUND v. BLACKMORE SEWER CONSTR., INC.United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
An employer was bound to make contributions to pension and welfare funds, where it signed the final version of a relevant collective bargaining...
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07/24/2002 | 00-1112/1975 |
US v. MCLECZYNSKYUnited States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
An indictment adequately set forth a Hobbs Act conspiracy violation, and any prejudice from the government's alleged reference to defendant's failure...
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07/24/2002 | 01-3018 |
BOIM v. QURANIC LITERACY INST.United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Procedure
A motion for stay of a mandate, pending the filing of a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, did not establish good cause...
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07/23/2002 | 01-1969/70 |
ST. PIERRE v. WALLSUnited States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
Defense counsel's failure to 1) discuss an insanity defense, 2) investigate and obtain reports on defendant's childhood, and 3) have defendant...
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07/23/2002 | 01-3480 |
STRONG v. DAVIDUnited States Seventh Circuit
Civil Rights
An inmate's intraprison grievances, complaining of sexual assault and correctional officials's response to that assault, are made in sufficient detail...
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07/23/2002 | 01-3264 |
CENT. STATES, SOUTHWEST & SOUTHEAST AREAS PENSION FUND v. HUNT TRUCK LINES, INC.United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The failure to make payments on withdrawal liability under a pension fund, after a revised demand that such payments be made, was a new wrong, and...
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07/23/2002 | 01-2558 |
YADEGAR-SARGIS v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.United States Seventh Circuit
Civil Rights, Immigration Law, International Law
Asylum and withholding of deportation were properly denied where evidence did not compel a finding of persecution due to 1) Armenian ethnicity, or 2)...
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07/22/2002 | 01-3693 |
APS SPORTS COLLECTIBLES, INC. v. SPORTS TIME, INC.United States Seventh Circuit
Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action arising from a loan default and transfer of assets from a bankrupt corporation, no valid claim of liability of individual corporate...
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07/22/2002 | 00-2260 |