2017 Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1058 of 1058
Date: January 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3067
Justia Opinion Summary: After multiple law enforcement agencies investigated drug trafficking in the St. Louis, Missouri area, several conspirators were arrested. Syms, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to…
Date: January 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3854
Justia Opinion Summary: Featherly lived in a Wisconsin trailer park when law enforcement discovered that Featherly’s Internet‐service account was sharing child pornography. FBI agent Hauser obtained a warrant to search Featherly’s residence,…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2132
Justia Opinion Summary: David, an African-American woman over the age of 40, was an employee of the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) from 1980-2012. She announced in 2011 that she planned to retire in 2012. She then requested a change in title…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3838
Justia Opinion Summary: Tilden received an IRS notice of deficiency covering his tax years 2005, 2010, 2011, and 2012. The last day to seek review (26 U.S.C. 6213(a)) was April 21, 2015. The Tax Court received Tilden’s petition on April 29,…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1333
Justia Opinion Summary: In her case, consolidated for pretrial proceedings as part of multidistrict litigation, Dzik alleged that she suffered a venous thromboembolism because she used a prescription birth control pill, Yasmin. Dzik’s medical…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1689
Date: January 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1302
Justia Opinion Summary: King, an Illinois prisoner, suffers from a severe case of temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Since 2004 he has been confined at different correctional facilities. He receives some medical care from healthcare personnel…
Date: January 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3225
Justia Opinion Summary: Rivera, a 58‐year‐old citizen of El Salvador, has resided unlawfully in the U.S. for 35 years, having immigrated illegally. In 2014, having fought off a previous deportation effort, Rivera was convicted of possessing a…
Date: January 11, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2206
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs’ Indianapolis home had a mortgage serviced by J.P. Morgan Chase. In 2011 plaintiffs accused Chase of paying the wrong homeowner’s insurer using $1,422 from their escrow account. They had switched insurers…
Date: January 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1106
Justia Opinion Summary: Baugh fell off a five‐foot, A‐frame aluminum ladder while working on a gutter. Baugh sustained significant bleeding in his brain, which caused seizures, dementia, and quadriplegia. In a suit against Cuprum, which…
Date: January 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1155
Justia Opinion Summary: Allin and Baskett lived together in Allin’s residence. Allin, in poor health, signed over the titles to several vehicles, including a 2001 FLSTS Harley Davidson motorcycle, to “make it easier for his survivors.” The…
Date: January 10, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2691
Justia Opinion Summary: Thomas was charged with conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute, a mixture or substance containing heroin, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), 846, and two counts of possessing, with intent to distribute, a mixture or…
Date: January 10, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2954
Justia Opinion Summary: Robledo‐Soto, a Mexican citizen facing deportation, sought to postpone his removal proceeding so that he could expunge a drunk‐driving conviction and then try to persuade the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3797
Justia Opinion Summary: Smith's attacker chased her down an alley and onto the street, firing shots as she fled, screaming. Clemons was the father of Smith’s infant son. Several eyewitnesses identified him as the shooter. Clemons was convicted…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Numbers: 16-2339, 16-2336
Justia Opinion Summary: Wink had been employed by Miller since 1999. In July 2011, Miller granted Wink’s request for intermittent Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)) leave through July 2012 to take her autistic…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1244
Justia Opinion Summary: Parker and her sister, Schiavon, checked into adjoining rooms at the Four Seasons. In each, a sliding glass door separated the shower area from the vanity area. As Parker exited the shower area by opening that door, it…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1747
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C). Because of the quantity and his criminal history, his guideline sentencing range was 151-188 months and his…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2790
Justia Opinion Summary: Geiger, an account executive, received Aetna group disability insurance coverage. In 2009, Geiger stopped working and obtained short term disability precipitated by lumbar back pain and a 2007 L5S1 discectomy and…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2793
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued Amazon, claiming that it permitted third parties to advertise counterfeit copies of books, Vagabond Natural and Vagabond Spiritual, that the plaintiff wrote and self‐published, detailing his experiences as…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1729
Justia Opinion Summary: Williams filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, based on an injury he suffered in Cook County jail. For his in forma pauperis (IFP) applications, McWilliams used a form provided by the Northern District of Illinois clerk’s…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3258
Justia Opinion Summary: Darden operates restaurants throughout Illinois under brand names including Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The plaintiffs worked intermittently as hourly employees at Darden-owned restaurants from 2004-2012. After…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-3495, 15‐3375
Justia Opinion Summary: In Presley v. Georgia (2010), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to voir dire. In one of the cases consolidated for appeal, Pinno was convicted of assisting in the mutilation…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-3581, 15‐3575
Justia Opinion Summary: While Cureton was under investigation for dealing crack cocaine, he used a gun to demand ransom from his roommate’s family; her grandfather agreed by telephone to wire Cureton $4,500. A jury convicted Cureton of…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1112
Justia Opinion Summary: Liberia’s civil war, 1989-1997, claimed the lives of 200,000 people and displaced a million others. Petitioner was exiled to Guinea, where he became close with Conneh, the head of LURD, an organization devoted to the…
Date: January 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3938
Justia Opinion Summary: Tri-State sued the Bauers in small claims court for the cost of a water treatment system it had installed following a free, in-home assessment of their water. The Bauers answered and filed a counterclaim, asserting a…
Date: January 4, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2290
Justia Opinion Summary: WCPP is a risk purchasing group for commercial property insurance. MGSA, an insurance broker, acts as WCPP’s program administrator, representing more than 600 properties. In 2011, MGSA sought renewal coverage for the…
Date: January 4, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1601
Justia Opinion Summary: Childress unsuccessfully sought Social Security Administration disability benefits in 2008, at age 35. He appealed to the district court, which remanded for reevaluation of the medical opinions in the record and…
Date: January 4, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2193
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). The judge increased his sentencing guidelines range by four levels, U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), for possessing the firearm in…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1592
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1995, Turner was convicted of murder, criminal confinement, and class A felony attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed. He did not seek certiorari to the U.S. Supreme…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1660
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2003, Murdock was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm. In connection with his post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a suppression hearing was held to determine…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1526
Justia Opinion Summary: Wang, a Chinese citizen, came to the U.S. in 2010 on a student visa. Wang never attended school, but worked part‐time. In 2011, Wang unsuccessfully sought asylum. Wang testified that he started practicing Christianity…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1677
Justia Opinion Summary: Frye was seriously injured in an accident while driving for his job. Frye accepted $100,000, the per-person limit, from the other driver’s insurer, assigning it to his lawyer and to his employer’s insurer, Auto-Owners,…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2059
Justia Opinion Summary: A veterans’ group challenged an anti‑robocall statute, Ind. Code 24‑5‑14‑5, under the First Amendment. The law prohibits automated calls with recorded messages unless the recipient has previously consented or the…
Date: January 3, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2189
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Xiang came to the U.S. on a visitor’s visa. She sought asylum and withholding of removal, alleging that, after the 1992 birth of her son, she suffered persecution under China’s strict family planning policies.…
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