United States Seventh Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Fincher v. S. Bend Heritage Found.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against defendant for denying his application for Section 8 housing in its building, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed...

Everroad v. Scott Truck Sys., Inc.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer and the company's general manager for gender and age discrimination and retaliation, summary judgment...

Kodish v. Oakbrook Terrace Fire Prot. Dist.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a former firefighter's suit alleging violation of his due process rights, violation of his First Amendment rights by terminating him for engaging...

Wragg v. Village of Thornton

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a sixteen-year-old's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a village and individual defendants, alleging his substantive due process rights were...

FAL-Meridian, Inc. v. US Dep't of Health & Human Serv.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Government Law, Health Law
A nursing home's petition to set aside a final decision by the Department of Health and Human Services, that imposed a civil penalty of $7,100 for...

Am. Land Holdings of Indiana, LLC v. Jobe

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action seeking a declaration that plaintiff has the right to strip mine coal on defendants' land, and specific performance of an option to...

US v. England

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In defendant's third appeal of his sentence from his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm and obstruction crimes, imposition of a...

Stuart v. Rech

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Tax Law
In a pro se defendant's pleading filed in the district court, captioned "replevin," seeking return of his property seized by an IRS agent during...

Berry v. Peterman

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
In an inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a nurse, a doctor and jail administrator for violating his Eighth Amendment right for refusing to...

Welch v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
District court's denial of defendant's motion under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 to vacate his sentence of 180-months for being convicted of being a felon...