United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. ABDULLA

Criminal Law & Procedure
Incriminating statements, which may have resulted from "interrogation" of defendant, were correctly admitted, because subsequent statements (identical...

FYRNETICS (HONG KONG) LTD. v. QUANTUM GROUP, INC.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a claim based on the sale of defective products which resulted in a recall, evidence did not show that parties deviated from a license agreement...

US v. MORRIS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where prior firearms offenses were committed close in time and location, but involved distinct criminal aggressions from which defendant had an...

SCHEIBER v. DOLBY LAB., INC.

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a suit to enforce a patent license agreement, a patent owner may not enforce a contract for payment of patent royalties beyond the expiration date...

SALVADORI v. FRANKLIN SCH. DIST.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A teacher failed to show that a school district's decision not to renew her employment contract was due to ethnic animus, or was retaliatory because...

INT'L BHD. OF ELECT. WORKERS, LOCAL 176 v. BALMORAL RACING CLUB, INC.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Because certain camera workers fell within the scope of a collective bargaining agreement, an employer must arbitrate a labor dispute arising out of...

SMITH v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
After the government repossessed a military tank purchased by a private non-profit, claims failed under the Federal Tort Claims Act for return of the...

RICH PROD. CORP. v. ZURICH AM. INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Wisconsin statutes allowing a direct action against insurers for damages caused by negligence, will not allow a direct negligence action to proceed...

ARNOLD v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AM.

Labor & Employment Law
Mine workers' failure to exhaust internal union procedures, prior to bringing suit against their union under the Labor Management Relations Act, is...

INT'L INS. CO. v. CAJA NACIONAL DE AHORRO Y SEGURO

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law, International Law
An Argentinian insurance and reinsurance company is not immune, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, from posting pre-judgment security under...