United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Rizzo v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings involving claims that a state trial court violated petitioner's constitutional rights in its denial of his requests for access...

Gross v. Town of Cicero

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
On a motion to reconsider dismissal of plaintiff's appeal for failure to prosecute, the circuit court gives appellant's counsel the choice of paying a...

U.S. v. Romero

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
On remand from the Supreme Court for reconsideration in light of Kimbrough v. United States, a sentence for conspiring to distribute cocaine is...

Pavey v. Conley

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In an interlocutory appeal from a decision finding that a prisoner plaintiff in a suit for damages governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act is...

Lewis v. City of Chicago

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought under Title VII involving the Chicago Fire Department's hiring practices, alleging that the test administered by defendant...

U.S. v. Garcia

Criminal Law & Procedure
A conviction for possession with intent to distribute cocaine is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) the court's failure to grant defendant's...

Judson Atkinson Candies, Inc. v. Latini-Hohberger Dhimantec

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Debt Collection, Judgement Enforcement, Sanctions
In a suit to collect a judgment obtained against a defunct company by suing the holding company and several of its officers, summary judgment for...

Zeqiri v. Mukasey

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order for removal in an asylum case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and the rest of the petition is denied where: 1)...

U.S. v. Alden

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Sentence for conspiring to manufacture, to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute methamphetamine is affirmed over claims of error...

Harney v. Speedway SuperAmerica, LLC

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action alleging that the manner in which defendant paid and forfeited its employees' bonuses violated Indiana's Wage Payment Statute and...