United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

MOORE v. BRYANT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Because a state appellate court did not clearly rely on waiver as an independent and adequate state ground in its decision, but denied an ineffective...

HAMPTON v. WYANT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where the state has provided opportunity for full litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim, a state prisoner may not be granted federal habeas relief on...

GABLE v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A class action suit, for damages to automobiles after they were towed to an impound lot, was not actionable against a city, where no policy or custom...

MARTIN v. SHAWANO-GRESHAM SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a school district, by parents of a student who committed suicide after being suspended, was not actionable where...

TOPTCHEV v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law, International Law
Bulgaria citizens were properly denied asylum, despite evidence of past persecution, where the presumption of future persecution was adequately...

BENNETT v. ROBERTS

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a claim that a school board declined to hire a teacher for nineteen vacancies, based on her race, summary judgment for the board was proper where...

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO. v. IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS, INC.

Contracts, Evidence
In a contract for photocopy equipment and services, where conflict as to cancellation terms existed between preprinted and typewritten portions of the...

ZHOU v. GUARDIAN LIFE INS. CO. OF AM.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
A chiropractor's ERISA suit against patient's insurer for full payment, following patient's assignment of payment rights to chiropractor, was...

DAVIS v. COMBES

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
An oral agreement, promising to maintain insurance for another's benefit, is not sufficient under Illinois law to override a written designation of a...

SCH. DIST. OF WISCONSIN DELLS v. Z.S.

Civil Rights, Education Law
A district judge may have inappropriately made an independent determination, that a school district did not violate the Individuals with Disabilities...