United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Abstract & Title Guar. Co., Inc. v. Chicago Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an insurance dispute over an errors and omissions policy, summary judgment for defendant-insurer is affirmed where: 1) Indiana law allows the use...

Harzewski v. Guidant Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an ERISA suit by participants and beneficiaries in an employee pension plan alleging that the plan's fiduciaries acted imprudently in failing to...

US v. James

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for drug, weapons and counterfeiting offenses are affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) evidence implicating his...

US v. Johnson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine is affirmed where defendant failed to demonstrate that the district court committed clear error in...

US v. Greve

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction for tax fraud is affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the grand jury heard evidence illegally obtained by the IRS; 2) the IRS...

US v. Burks

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for weapons offenses are affirmed where the district court properly denied a motion to suppress evidence since there was...

Kodl v. Bd. of Educ. Sch. Dist. 45

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging discrimination and retaliation, summary judgment for defendant-employer is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff could not show that the...

Boumehdi v. Plastag Holdings, LLC

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Pay Act, summary judgment for defendant-employer is reversed where:...

Williams v. Excel Foundry & Mach., Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit against a former employer alleging that plaintiff's termination violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, summary judgment for...

US v. Olivas-Ramirez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for conspiracy to distribute and attempt to manufacture methamphetamine is affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the district court...