United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

ZURICH AM. INS. CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Remedies
A preliminary injunction issued by the district court, enjoining a California court from further proceedings pending the district court's resolution...

BALDERSTON v. FAIRBANKS MORSE ENGINE DIVISION OF COLTEC INDUS.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Even if plaintiffs established a prima facie case under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, they failed to show that employer's stated reasons...

US v. WALLACE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The district court did not err in ordering defendant to disclose an investigator's report, and a nearly two-year delay between state arrest and return...

THOMAS v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
An argument, that an indictment was fatally defective where it did not specify drug quantity possessed with intent to distribute, is not a substantial...

DOE v. HECK

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
Some actions taken by Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare workers in investigating corporal punishment at a private Christian school were...

BLEAVINS v. BARTELS

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Record is inadequate to determine whether trailers seized during a tax seizure were located within the curtilage of defendant's home, and whether...

MOLINA v. COOPER

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
A civil rights claim was not actionable where a search warrant was supported by probable cause, officers complied with the "knock and announce" rule,...

IN THE MATTER OF SYNTHROID MARKETING LITIG.

Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech
For each band of recovery after a class action alleging consumer fraud by a pharmaceutical company, consumer class counsel should recover at least as...

IN RE VLASEK

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
A bankruptcy court's decision to deny a motion seeking dismissal of a bankruptcy petition will not be treated as final for purposes of an appeal as of...

US v. HOLM

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
18 U.S.C. section 2252's prohibition on child pornography is not constitutionally overbroad, but a condition of supervised release that is intended to...