United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Boyd

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Denial of a defendant's Apprendi challenge in a motion filed under the old Rule 35(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is modified and...

US v. Hatfield

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Sentencing
Conviction and imposition of life sentences on defendants for conspiracy to burglarize pharmacies and to distribute controlled substances, the use of...

US v. Stotler

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
District court's conviction of a defendant for attempted possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and related crimes...

LaFary v. Rogers Group, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer for age and sex discrimination and retaliation after she was let go for taking more than six months of...

Carr v. Tillery

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law
In an attorney-plaintiff's RICO suit against his former law partners involving a dispute over the division of legal fees in cases handled by the law...

US v. Lane

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and related crimes is affirmed where: 1) district court did not commit plain error...

US v. Turner

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for dealing crack cocaine is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not commit error in allowing a forensic chemist's...

US v. Cooper

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin is affirmed...

Gilbert v. Illinois State Bd. Educ.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's action against the Board of Education of a High School District arising from his discharge as a high school social studies teacher and...

Line Constr. Benefit Fund v. Allied Elec. Contractors, Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action by a multiemployer employee welfare fund (Plan) against an employer for deficient contributions, summary judgment in favor of the...