United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Shrake

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for possessing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and transmitting them in interstate commerce are...

Garcia-Meza v. Mukasey

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a final order of removal, arising from a conviction for petitioner's grabbing a police officer's fingers and twisting them, is...

US v. Shaaban

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sentencing
In an appeal from a sentence for various offenses relating to defendant's attempt to sell the names of CIA agents working covertly in Iraq to the...

US v. Beaver

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Convictions for participating in a price-fixing conspiracy, and making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent who was investigating that...

State of Wisconsin v. Amgen, Inc.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Sanctions
In an action against defendant charging fraudulent pricing of pharmaceutical drugs in violation of Wisconsin state law, an order remanding the case...

Gabriel v. Hamlin

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sanctions
In a prisoner's-rights suit filed after being plaintiff was seriously injured while working in a prison kitchen, denial of a continuance and dismissal...

Price v. Thurmer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Health Law
Denial of habeas relief from a conviction and sentence for attempted murder and other crimes is affirmed in part, but reversed in part and remanded...

US v. Stephens

Criminal Law & Procedure
A decision on remand granting defendant a new trial based on a Batson challenge is reversed, his convictions for wire fraud reinstated and affirmed,...

US v. Pacheco-Diaz

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Petition for rehearing in a prosecution for illegal reentry is denied where the district court properly applied a sentencing enhancement for reentry...

Smith v. Potter

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of a sexual harassment suit against the U.S. Postal Service on the ground of res judicata after a district court judge dismissed plaintiff's...