United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Deutsch

Criminal Law and Procedure, Sentencing

Jamal-Daoud v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Denial of plaintiff's request for asylum is affirmed over his claim that the immigration judge erred in relying on his airport interview to make an...

Ameritech Corp. v. McCann

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Government Law
18 U.S.C. section 2706, which requires any governmental entity that demands certain information from phone companies to pay for the expense of its...

Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Leighton

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an indemnity dispute, a magistrate judge correctly entered judgment as a matter of law in favor of defendant, and properly denied plaintiff's...

US v. Della Rose

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for mail fraud is affirmed over his claim that the district judge erred in excluding evidence that was intended to show that it...

Joy v. Hay Group, Inc.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
When a written contract is unclear, any evidence admissible under the rules of evidence is usable to establish the contract's meaning.

IFC Credit Corp. v. Bulk Petroleum Corp.

Contracts
In suit for breach of a lease agreement, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where the lease agreement has been concluded through an...

McElroy v. Lopac

Civil Rights, Injury and Tort Law, Constitutional Law

Benefiel v. Davis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Death row inmate raises three meritless points of error on direct appeal.

Bintz v. Bertrand

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's petition for writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where plaintiff failed to show that the Wisconsin courts acted unreasonably when...