United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

LaBella Winnetka, Inc. v. Village of Winnetka

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against a town and the town manager, claiming various constitutional violations and a state law claim for intentional interference...

Bd. of Regents of Univ. of Wisconsin Sys. v. Phoenix Int'l Software, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System's (Wisconsin) action challenging the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's (TTAB) grant of...

Blockowicz v. Williams

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law
Following the district court's entry of default judgment and a permanent injunction against defendants for posting defamatory comments about...

US v. Boone

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for mail fraud and other offenses, arising from charges related to a political corruption scheme, is affirmed where: 1) the...

Fells v. US

Government Benefits, Government Law, Administrative Law, Commercial Law
District court's affirmance of a final decision of the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), permanently...

Lin v. Holder

Government Law, Health Law, Immigration Law
A Chinese citizen's petition for review of a BIA's affirmance of an IJ's denial of an application for asylum and withholding of removal based on his...

Bausch v. Stryker Corp.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Professional Malpractice
In plaintiff's suit against manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of the Trident-brand ceramic-on-ceramic hip replacement system, claiming that she...

US v. Dortch

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of defendant for bank robbery, district court's imposition of a statutory maximum sentence of 240 months, is affirmed where: 1)...

Khan v. Bland

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against the Housing Authority of Champaign County (HACC), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other HACC...

Parvati Corp. v. City of Oak Forest

Administrative Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's zoning dispute with a city over a hotel that plaintiff owned but wanted to sell, district court's denial of plaintiff's Rule 60(b) for...