United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

First Bank v. DJL Prop., LLC

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law
Petition for leave to appeal involving remand of plaintiff's two suits to state court after it removed the cases under the Class Action Fairness Act...

Menominee Tribal Enter. v. Solis

Administrative Law, Government Law, Health Law, Indian Law
Petition for review of an order of the Occupations Safety and Health Review Commission citing a tribe for violations of OSHA in operation of a sawmill...

WellPoint, Inc. v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, M&A, Tax Law
Judgment of the Tax Court that plaintiff could not deduct from its taxable income either the amount it paid to the states or the legal expenses that...

Luster v. Allstate Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
In plaintiff's action for breach of an insurance contract against his deceased client's insurer, arising from the insurance company's denial of claims...

Fleszar v. U.S. Dep't of Labor

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
Petition for review a decision of the Administrative Review Board declining to investigate plaintiff's allegation that her termination from employment...

Stokes v. Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and a school principal, claiming the principal...

Brown v. Watters

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief is affirmed where: 1) defendant's challenge to the paraphillia NOS nonconsent...

Vainisi v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Law, Tax Law
The Tax Court's holding that the petitioners were entitled to deduct only 80 percent of the expense that their QSub bank had incurred in borrowing...

Tully v. Barada

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit claiming defendants violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by summoning him to...

T.E. v. Grindle

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against an elementary principal and the school district's band teacher arising from molestation of several young...