United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

IN RE: BARNES

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law
Indiana law permits an involuntary lien on a liquor license.

SEC. & EXCH. COMM'N v. LIPSON

Securities Law
Presumption that defendant with insider information, who sold his shares just before the information became public and the price fell, was motivated...

HALL v. BODINE ELEC. CO.

Labor & Employment Law
The fact that one employee has authority to oversee some aspects of another employee's job performance does not make that employee a "supervisor"...

PATTON v. INDIANAPOLIS PUB. SCH. BD.

Labor & Employment Law
An employee who was disciplined for sexual harassment is not similarly situated to another employee demoted for poor performance.

MARKEL v. BD. OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN SYS.

Labor & Employment Law
Employee who was denied "better" equipment, the ability to travel and make presentations, and removed from certain accounts that caused her to not...

BENNINGTON v. CATERPILLAR, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
For a defendant to overcome a motion for summary judgement in a claim of age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (AEDA), he...

BOYD v. WEXLER

Debt Collection
Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. sec. 1692 et seq., there is a triable issue of fact as to whether a lawyer, who claims to...

US v. LOPEZ-FLORES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
A defendant, charged under 8 U.S.C. sec. 1326(a), violates the statute upon the date of re-entry to the U.S., not upon the date discovered by the INS.

US v. JONES

Criminal Law & Procedure
On appeal, a defendant must establish that he suffered prejudice from an alleged variance between the indictment and the proof at trial.

CARTER v. LITSCHER

Criminal Law & Procedure
A properly filed collateral attack that is pending in state court does toll the statute of limitations for a federal collateral attack, under 28...