United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Sims v. Barnhart

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
Rejection of a challenge to an administrative law judge's ruling denying disability benefits is affirmed where the plaintiff failed to produce...

Gonzalez-Gomez v. Achim

Administrative Law, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
Petition for review of removal order is granted where the BIA erred in ruling that a state felony conviction for drug possession was an aggravated...

Meridian Sec. Ins. Co. v. Sadowski

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Insurance Law
Dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in a suit requesting a declaratory judgment that an insurance company need not defend or indemnify its insured is...

U.S. v. Connors

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, International Trade, Sentencing
Conviction for smuggling Cuban cigars is affirmed over defendant's arguments that a federal agent violated his Fourth Amendment rights by asking his...

Maher v. FDIC

Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Suit against the FDIC to recover pension funds from a failed bank is simultaneously dismissed because of mootness where the FDIC's receivership had...

U.S. v. Adamson

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Denial of a suppression motion is affirmed where the district court did not clearly err in finding that the defendant consented to the initial stop...

U.S. v. Burton

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Appeal of conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon is affirmed over the defendant's argument that the seizure of his car and search of his...

Article II Gun Shop, Inc. v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Summary judgment for the government in a challenge to the ATF's decision to revoke plaintiff's federal license to sell firearms is affirmed where: 1)...

Rehman v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition to set aside a BIA order is considered where the government addressed the petition on the merits and did not mention its procedural defects,...

Wisconsin Mut. Ins. Co. v. U.S.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Petition for appeal of a judgment in a tort case involving a collision between a teenage driver exceeding the speed limit and a U.S. government...