United States Seventh Circuit - March 2010 Opinion Summaries

Cleveland v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's petition in the Tax Court to keep the IRS from increasing the amount of income tax withheld from his wages, dismissal of his case for...

Wrightsell v. Cook County

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Civil Procedure
In a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a county claiming that the failure to make more than a single dentist available to the jail's...

US v. Krumwiede

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's imposition of a 140-month sentence for stealing thirty-four firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer and possessing a...

Brown v. Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that an officer used excessive force, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where, because plaintiff...

US v. Simmons

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's bank robbery conviction is affirmed where any possible error in admitting gloves and photos related to the robbery was harmless given the...

Sandra T.E. v. S. Berwyn Sch. Dist. 100

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a law firm's appeal from the district court's order requiring it to produce documents it created in an internal investigation of a school district,...

Santiago v. Walls

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a pro se action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against certain officers and employees of the Illinois correctional department alleging that they had...

Al's Serv. Ctr. v. BP Prod. N. Am., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In plaintiff's suit under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, claiming that BP drove the small gas station out of business so that it could open a...

Chang v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit brought by residents of Taiwan against a manufacturer of clotting factors, claiming that the defendant acquired blood from high-risk donors...

US v. Barnhart

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
Defendant's convictions for wire fraud, involving a fraud on a former employer and another involving a fraudulent scheme to obtain $500,000 from a...