United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

AJAYI v. ARAMARK BUS. SERVS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff has raised a genuine issue of material fact to preclude summary judgment of her retaliation claims advanced under Title VII and 42 U.S.C....

US v. FORD

Criminal Law & Procedure
Grant of motion to suppress drug-related evidence found on defendant's person, where activation of the metal detector alone was not sufficient to give...

NISENBAUM v. MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Elections, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on retaliatory discharge for exercising his First Amendment (running for office) is denied where his...

US v. VAISETA

Criminal Law & Procedure
The district court did not abuse its discretion by declaring a mistrial due to jury deadlock on one of the seven charged counts of auto theft-related...

MARTIN v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure
The U.S. Supreme Court's most recent interpretation of the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. section 844(i) in Jones v. US, 529 U.S. 848 (2000), does...

ARRES v. IMI CORNELIUS REMCOR, INC.

Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff's retaliatory discharge contention, that Illinois law blocks an employer from firing someone who tries to remove from the payroll aliens not...

KENNELLIS ENERGIES, INC. v. HALLMARK

Labor & Employment Law
The Benefits Review Board's decision affirming the ALJ's award of disability benefits due to coal miners' pneumoconiosis is affirmed over the...

SKYWALKER COMMUNICATIONS OF INDIANA, INC. v. SKYWALKER COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Commercial Law, Contracts
The dismissal of plaintiff's contract-based diversity suit as barred by Indiana's statute of frauds is affirmed.

US v. SYNOWIEC

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sufficient evidence was presented at trial to support defendant's conviction for bribing an Immigration agent on two separate occasions.

DECHERT v. THE CADLE CO.

Bankruptcy Law, Class Actions
When the named plaintiff in a class action is a fiduciary, that party, here a trustee in bankruptcy, is not a proper class representative.