United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Albiola

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Convictions of defendant for attempting to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for knowingly and intentionally using a communication...

US v. Reyes-Hernandez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
In convictions of defendants for illegally re-entering the United States after being removed following their convictions for aggravated felony crimes,...

Palka v. Shelton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former deputy sheriff's section 1983 suit against Cook County, the City of Chicago, a sheriff, and other individuals, claiming that defendants...

Cogswell v. CitiFinancial Mortgage Co., Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's breach of contract suit against defendant-CitiFinancial, after an unsuccessful appeal of the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's...

Wilson v. Price

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' suit against a city and an alderman raising claims under 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985, as well as state law claims for loss of...

Annex Books, Inc. v. City of Indianapolis

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Government Law
In plaintiffs' suit challenging the City of Indianapolis's ordinance requiring adult bookstores to be closed all day on Sunday and between midnight...

US v. Suggs

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a conviction of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, district court's application at sentencing of a 4-level increase under...

Mobile Anesthesiologists Chicago, LLC v. Anesthesia Assoc. of Houston Metroplex, P.A.

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In plaintiff's suit claiming that defendant violated the federal anti-cybersquatting statute by registering a domain name confusingly similar to...

In Re: Res. Tech. Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Sanctions
In Chapter 7 proceedings, bankruptcy court's rejection of the bankruptcy trustee's proposed assignments of the debtor's contracts with four Illinois...

Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc.

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In plaintiff's suit against Yahoo! and others for trademark infringement and various other state law claims, claiming that search results that appear...