United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

DUGAN v. R.J. CORMAN R.R. CO.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action by trustees of multiemployer welfare and pension funds, for an employer's failure to make contributions that were allegedly...

US v. HOWZE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Convictions for theft from a person and fleeing from an officer were "violent felonies" which would require a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under...

MCCULLAH v. GADERT

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The district court erred in dismissing that part of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint alleging that a police officer Gadert violated plaintiff's...

IN RE AR ACCESSORIES GROUP, INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Judgement Enforcement, Labor & Employment Law
A generally applicable state law providing for the super-priority status of certain wage liens need not contain language expressly providing for...

US v. HAUSMANN

Criminal Law & Procedure
An indictment did not fail to adequately allege the elements of an underlying mail and wire fraud offense, and the government did not fail to prove...

N. BORDER PIPELINE CO. v. 64.111 ACRES OF LAND IN WILL COUNTY

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for valuation after a natural-gas pipeline condemned private land, the district court did not clearly err or abuse its discretion in...

VOLOVSEK v. WISCONSIN DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A Title VII sex discrimination plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to overcome summary judgment with respect to a claim arising from denial of...

IN RE: US

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In refusing to dismiss a civil rights count against a former police officer, the district judge was telling the government which crimes to prosecute,...

ROSS v. TOWN OF AUSTIN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Summary judgment in favor of a town and its police chief was proper in plaintiff's section 1983 substantive due process claims, alleging that a police...

PIGGIE v. COTTON

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a section 2254 petition for relief from a battery conviction, the district court erred by not conducting an in camera review to evaluate whether a...