United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

MUICK v. GLENAYRE ELECTRONICS

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Corporate employer that took employee's work computer, and eventually turned it over to law enforcement officials pursuant to a search warrant, did...

PATT v. FAMILY HEALTH SYS., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff who failed to establish that she was paid less than a similarly situated male surgeon could not succeed on her unequal pay claim under Title...

PAPER SYS. INC. v. NIPPON PAPER INDS. CO., LTD.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions
Even if plaintiffs did not purchase paper directly from specific defendant, it was improper to dismiss that defendant while its status as a member of...

AIR LINE PILOTS ASS-N INT. v. MIDWEST EXPRESS AIRLINES, INC.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Where a collective bargaining agreement containing an arbitration clause was entered into after employee reached a settlement agreement with his...

HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO. v. ST. PAUL SURPLUS LINES, INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Where insured acquired the assets of pill manufacturer after pills had been sold to injured consumer, vendor endorsement in insured's liability policy...

GOETZKE v. FERRO CORP.

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Under Indiana law, a former employee can maintain a Frampton action for retaliatory discharge even if he was covered by a collective bargaining...

HARTMAN BROS. HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING, INC. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
Labor Board's determination that employer's actions were improperly motivated by hostility to unionizing upheld, even though one discharged employee...

KRUKOWSKI v. COMM-R OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Because the "Self-Rental Rule," Treasury Regulation sec. 1.469-2(f)(6), is within the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to enact and furthers...

CHARTER OAK FIRE INS. CO. v. HEDEEN & COS.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In declaratory judgment action, where it was at least arguable that particular trademarks were used in the course of insureds' advertising, insurer's...

ZIVITZ v. GREENBERG

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
In fraud action, the court did not abuse its discretion by denying a setoff to reduce the jury's damage award against sole, non-settling defendant,...