United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Centillion Data Sys., LLC v. Qwest Communications Int'l., Inc.

Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action for infringement of a patent related to a system for collecting, processing, and delivering information from a service provider, such as...

Hoskins v. Dart

Criminal Law & Procedure, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an inmate's five separate suits under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a county sheriff and various prison officers claiming excessive physical...

Bettendorf v. St. Croix County

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a landowner's suit against a county for a declaratory judgment seeking to void a conditional language in an ordinance that reverts a parcel of his...

Protective Life Ins. Co. v. Hansen

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
In a dispute over the proceeds of a deceased's one-million-dollar life insurance policy, between the deceased's limited liability company (LLC) and...

Martinez v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
In a consolidated appeal, district court's affirmance of the Social Security Administration's denials of petitioners' applications for disability...

Smith v. Peters

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prisoner's civil rights suit claiming that prison employees violated the Eighth Amendment by forcing him to work at hard labor in dangerous...

Hyperqest, Inc. v. N'Site Solutions, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Intellectual Property, Copyright
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of certain copyrighted software used to process insurance claims, district court's dismissal of the suit in...

US v. Tinnie

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a conviction of defendant for possession of a firearm by a felon, district court's denial of a motion to suppress a gun and ammunition found in...

Suh v. Pierce

Criminal Law & Procedure
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief from his conviction for first-degree murder and armed robbery is affirmed as,...

Ervin v. OS Restaurant Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' suit against their employer under the FLSA, the Illinois Minimum Wage Law (IMWL), and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act,...