United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Larson v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In petitioner's application for Supplemental Security Income, claiming that she is disabled by anxiety, depression, and ankle pain, district court's...

US v. Li

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence, Immigration Law
Conviction of defendant for harboring an alien for commercial advantage or private financial gain is affirmed where: 1) a reasonable jury could have...

Alliance 3PL Corp. v. New Prime, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Transportation
In plaintiff's breach of contract suit against a shipping carrier, for allegedly violating a back-solicitation clause by carrying bulk goods for one...

Fusion Capital Find II, LLC. v. Ham

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, M&A
In an insolvent corporation's suit against defendant-corporation for tortious interference with its merger agreement, district court's judgment...

In Re: Meyers

Bankruptcy Law, Tax Law
In Chapter 7 proceedings, district court's affirmance of a bankruptcy court's use of a mechanical system known as the "pro rata by days" method to...

Spoerle v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc.

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employees' action against Kraft Foods, challenging a tradeoff agreement struck in collective bargaining agreement between union and management...

Moss v. Martin

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against several state officials, claiming that he was fired as the Chief of the Highway Sign Shop of the...

Marshall Joint Sch. Dist. No. 2 v. C.D.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law
District court's affirmance of the ALJ's conclusion that a school district erred in finding that plaintiff, a fifth grader diagnosed with a rare...

Purvis v. Oest

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former high school teacher's suit against a school district's superintendent and others claiming deprivation of due process and false arrest,...

Swanson v. Citibank, N.A.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
In a pro se's suit against Citibank and other individual defendants claiming that defendants discriminated against her on the basis of her race...