United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

DECATUR COUNTY COMM'RS v. SURFACE TRANSP. BD.

Administrative Law, Transportation
A Surface Transportation Board order, declining to penalize a rail company for an embargo of a portion of a rail line, was supported by substantial...

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...

KOSKI v. STANDEX INT'L CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim was not actionable where a former employee failed to demonstrate that defendant's stated reasons for...

PATTERSON FROZEN FOODS, INC. v. CROWN FOODS INT'L, INC.

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Contracts
A seller failed to observe the formalities necessary to preserve its Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act trust rights, by agreeing in writing to...

CURRY v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A motion under FRCP 59(e), to alter or amend a judgment, is not subject to the statutory limitations on successive collateral attacks on criminal...

ABRAMS v. WALKER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
An attorney's First Amendment retaliation claim arising from his arrest during a client's traffic stop was not actionable, because he had no...

TINNER v. UNITED INS. CO. OF AM.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII employment discrimination action, 1) denial of a Batson challenge arising out of employer's strike of the sole African-American member...

BROWN & LACOUNTE, L.L.P. v. WESTPORT INS. CORP.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice
An insurer had no duty to defend a law firm, in a claim alleging improper receipt and retention of payments for legal services rendered under a void...

NIELSEN v. DICKERSON

Consumer Protection Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Debt Collection
Where a letter sent by an attorney falsely suggested that an attorney had become actively involved in a credit card company's debt collection...

SHICK v. ILLINOIS DEP'T OF HUMAN SERV.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
District court abused its discretion in refusing to order a new trial on a Title VII sex discrimination count following its reversal of judgment on an...