United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. SPILLER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Ledgers of drug transactions are admissible as a statement of a party opponent where the government provides evidence that the defendant himself...

DYKEMA v. SKOUMAL

Civil Rights
A police informant, with personal experience in drug transactions and knowledge of the inherent dangers, acting on his own volition rather than...

VALENZUELA v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where the evidence included defendant's taped admission that the drugs in question were crack and not rock cocaine, his attorney's failure to object...

LINNEMEIR v. BD. OF TRS. OF PURDUE UNIV.

Constitutional Law
The First Amendment does not forbid a state university from providing a venue for the expression of views antagonistic to conventional Christian...

JOHNSON v. LITSCHER

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
An allegation that a transfer to a maximum security prison was in retaliation for successfully suing the prison is "harassment made possible by the...

WICOR, INC. v. US

Tax Law
Where the developer of computer source code fails to take a copy of the software for use with other clients, the district court may infer that it...

BERRY v. DELTA AIRLINES, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Where the plaintiff admits that the unwanted sexual overtures ceased after she complained, and she presents no evidence that any of the subsequent...

SIMON v. ALLSTATE EMPLOYEE GROUP MED. PLAN

Civil Procedure
Even if prior decisions of the district court and the Ninth Circuit were incorrect, the doctrine of res judicata bars relitigation of a claim for...

MCMASTERS v. US

Civil Procedure
While a court must give a plaintiff reasonable time to cure a defect in service under Rule 4(i)(3) or grant an appropriate extension of time for...

YETMAN v. GARVEY

Transportation
The FAA has the discretionary power to establish a rigid policy, granting no exemptions until satisfied that medical standards can demonstrate an...