United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Erickson v. WI Dep't of Corr.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law in a Title VII case alleging a hostile work environment after a sexual assault by an...

Gillis v. Litscher

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment for corrections officers in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit alleging violation of a prisoner's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights is...

Pjetri v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review of denial of asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction...

Bejko v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Denial of application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture is affirmed where: 1) the applicant did not...

Hall v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Denial of plaintiff's motion to amend his pleadings, and summary judgment for railroad company, in a suit over injuries suffered by an employee is...

Wallace v. Int'l Bus. Mach. Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Dismissal of a suit against corporate contributors to, and distributors of, the Linux operating system under the GNU General Public License (GPL) is...

Sanchez v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Juvenile Law
Denial of benefits to the mother of an allegedly disabled child is affirmed where the child showed no limitation in any domain of functioning that...

Vision Church v. Village of Long Grove

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for municipality is affirmed over a religious group's arguments that the municipality's involuntary annexation of the church's...

US v. Repking

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence of one day in prison for the president of a federally insured bank who was convicted of making false entries in the bank's records for the...

US v. Wagner

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for firearm violations is affirmed over defendant's challenge to a four-level enhancement for selling a firearm knowing that it would be used...