United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

SKS & Assoc., Inc. v. Dart

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff-residential rental property owner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a judge and a sheriff, claiming that the judge's general order...

Xodus v. Wackenhut Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against a security firm, claiming that it violated Title VII when it did not hire him as a security guard because plaintiff would...

Paloian v. Lasalle Bank, N.A.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a debtor-hospital's trustee's action to recover, as fraudulent conveyances, some loan payments made during the last years before hospital entered...

Gross v. Town of Cicero

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for violations of equal protection and free speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments against...

US v. Ali

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
District court's conviction of defendant, imposition of a 57-month sentence, and orders of $4.9 million in restitution and $2.56 million in...

Stephenson v. Wilson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital murder prosecution of defendant, district court's grant of habeas relief in ruling that defendant had been denied effective assistance of...

Etherly v. Davis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Grant of a petition for habeas relief from his first degree murder conviction and a denial of state's motion to stay the judgment pending appeal is...

Univ. of Chicago Med. Ctr. v. Sebelius

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
In University of Chicago Medical Center's claim for $2.8 million in Medicare reimbursements for indirect medical education (IME), based on its total...

US v. Quintero

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction and sentences of defendant and his getaway driver and girlfriend for bank robbery are affirmed where: 1) defendant knowingly and...

US v. Hudson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of defendant for possession of a firearm as a felon and possession of a stolen firearm, district court's conclusion that defendant's...