United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Mosely v. Bd. of Educ.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Health Law
Dismissals of plaintiff's civil rights and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) claims against a school board are reversed since...

Harrington v. City of Chicago

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions
Denial of a motion to vacate a dismissal of a civil rights suit for failure to prosecute is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in the...

Alexander v. City of S. Bend

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a civil rights case arising from plaintiff's wrongful conviction and subsequent imprisonment for attempted rape and...

Omni Tech Corp. v. MPC Solutions Sales, LLC

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, M&A
Denial of defendant's motion to stay pursuant to the parties' contractual agreement to submit certain disputes to an accounting firm is vacated where...

Moranski v. Gen. Motors Corp.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's Title VII case is affirmed where employer defendant's refusal to confer "Affinity Group" status to plaintiff's proposed...

US v. Segal

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection, Insurance Law, White Collar Crime
Approval of a trustee's transfer of one of defendant's former businesses to an outside insurance firm following defendant's conviction and a...

Pasha v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
Order of removal in an asylum case is vacated and the case remanded for further proceedings where there was jurisdiction to review the merits of...

US v. Hankton

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendants' sentences pursuant to plea agreement on charges related to the distribution of cocaine base are remanded pursuant to defendants' Booker...

US v. Lister

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for distribution of a controlled substance is affirmed over his claims of error regarding: 1) the district court's refusal to...

Hernandez-Alvarez v. Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a removal order is denied where the immigration judge properly concluded that, for purposes of removal, petitioner's conviction...