United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

SCHMIDT v. OTTAWA MED. CTR.

Civil Rights, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
When an individual claimant-shareholder enjoys the opportunity for shared control of a closely-held corporation (including profit-sharing...

DOTSON v. BRAVO

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Sanctions
Dismissal with prejudice of a civil rights lawsuit, as an FRCP 37(b) sanction, is affirmed where plaintiff deliberately filed his claim under a false...

US v. PITTS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Though the expectation of privacy for a person using an alias in sending or receiving mail is one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable,...

US v. EMMETT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's probation officer did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights by aiding police in a photo identification process, and where reasonable...

JIMEMEZ v. MADISON AREA TECH. COLL.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
Dismissal with prejudice of a former employer's 42 U.S.C. section 1981 action, alleging race, national origin, and sex discrimination by a technical...

HOSKINS v. POELSTRA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
A complaint arising from a city's alleged seizure and demolition of private property, including claims that a private citizen conspired with state...

EPPS v. CREDITNET, INC.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
An Indiana Small Claims Court judgment of civil damages for check deception was a valid state court judgment, thus the Rooker-Feldman doctrine denies...

ROGERS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A police officer's Title VII hostile work environment sexual harassment claim against a city was not actionable where conduct (little more than...

MERRILL v. TRUMP INDIANA, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
A civil suit alleging that a riverboat casino did not prevent plaintiff from gambling was not actionable, though plaintiff had asked to be excluded,...

BEAUCHAMP v. CITY OF NOBLESVILLE

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Police officers enjoyed qualified immunity to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, where they had probable cause to apply for warrants to arrest plaintiff...