United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

CSC HOLDINGS, INC. v. REDISI

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Where it is plain that the deposition of one of plaintiff's employees, which the district court refused to compel, would have assisted defendants in...

GRAYSON v. O'NEILL

Labor & Employment Law
In a racial discrimination action, where plaintiff, a Secret Service field office supervisor, offered no excuses for his pattern of inappropriate...

SEGGERMAN FARMS, INC. v. COMM'R OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
The Tax Court correctly upheld deficiency determinations for unreported recognizable gain, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. section 357(c), related to...

EEOC v. SIDLEY AUSTIN BROWN & WOOD

Labor & Employment Law
In an ADEA investigation on behalf of 32 demoted partners of a law firm, firm ordered to fully comply with EEOC subpoena seeking documents relating to...

GOMEZ-CHAVEZ v. PERRYMAN

Immigration Law
Prior immigrant removal order is reinstated after an earlier procedural mishap is resolved. On the merits, the INS order reinstating the removal order...

ALBRECHTSEN v. BD. OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN SYS.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence did not support a jury's conclusion that a university retaliated against a professor for taking a stand against sex discrimination, where a...

MACK v. GREAT DANE TRAILERS

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employee's ADA claim was not actionable where a jury could not reasonably find that an employer regarded claimant as substantially limited in any...

US v. OWENS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Upward sentence adjustments after an armed robbery conviction are affirmed where 1) defendant's role as leader of a group amounted to an "aggravating...

ROGERS v. TYSON FOODS, INC.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law
District court lacked the federal question jurisdiction necessary to remove a consumer fraud action under Illinois state law, because the Poultry...

LEWIS v. ANDERSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, by siblings against social services officials for due process violations in placing plaintiffs with an abusive family,...