United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Rexam Beverage Can Co. v. Bolger

Commercial Law, Contracts, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a commercial landlord-tenant dispute involving at a warehouse with a leaky roof, the replacement of which both landlord and tenant denied was their...

US v. Martin

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Convictions of defendants for violating various provisions of 21 U.S.C. sections 841, 843 and 846, for their respective roles in a narcotics...

Hutchings v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief, claiming that his attorney's false guarantee of a Rule 35 reduction in his sentence...

Berry v. Chicago Transit Auth.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her employer, claiming sex discrimination and hostile work environment, district court's grant of summary judgment in...

Bauer v. Shepard

Constitutional Law, Elections, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Government Law, Judges & Judiciary
In plaintiffs' challenge to certain provisions of the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct, claiming that they refrain from speaking about controversial...

US v. Lee

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
District court's conviction of defendant for drug related crimes is affirmed where: 1) assuming arguendo that the district court's denial of...

US v. Padilla

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of defendant for distributing cocaine, district court's imposition of an above-Guidelines sentence of 327 months' imprisonment is...

Gutierrez-Berdin v. Holder

Government Law, Immigration Law
A Mexican citizen's petition for review of a removal order is denied in part and dismissed in part where: 1) the IJ did not err in denying...

US v. Smith

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of defendant for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, money laundering, concealment of information from the Social Security Administration,...

US v. Holstein

Bankruptcy Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, White Collar Crime
Conviction of defendant for bankruptcy fraud and making false statements in bankruptcy petitions, based on providing bankruptcy services at his law...