United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

POP v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law
Board of Immigration Appeals did not abuse its discretion in concluding that asylum applicant was not prejudiced by his attorney-s failure to present...

AMERICAN SOC'Y OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY v. THOMPSON

Administrative Law, Health Law
By its express terms, the Medicare Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1395w-4(i)(1)(B), bars judicial review of a challenge to components of the physician fee...

CHAPINSKI v. ZIGLAR

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Where applicants for permanent resident status under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 were in no imminent danger of...

LEWIS v. HOLSUM OF FORT WAYNE, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Where, contrary to her employer-s company rules, Attendance Policy, and Labor Agreement, the plaintiff failed to notify her employer of her need for...

HARBOURS POINTE OF NASHOTAH, LLC v. VILLAGE OF NASHOTAH

Property Law & Real Estate
A developer that sought to challenge a special tax assessment as a taking, under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, forfeited its right to challenge the assessment,...

US v. JONES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where a defendant repeatedly refused to provide grand jury and trial testimony in violation of a cooperation agreement with the government and a court...

IN RE: BEMIS CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The facts that a suit brought by the EEOC against an employer involved discrimination rather than harassment, sought compensatory and punitive damages...

DONAHUE v. BARNHART

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits
In an administrative proceeding on an application for supplemental security income, when there is a discrepancy between the testimony of a vocational...

US v. COOK COUNTY

Government Contracts
A municipality may be sued under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. sec. 3729 et seq., as a "person."

RASTAFARI v. ANDERSON

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Failure of counsel to sever murder trial from co-defendant is not prejudicial under Indiana law when both defendants were tried under the...