2019 Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1073 of 1073
Date: January 23, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3636
Justia Opinion Summary: Coleman, a former Chicago police officer, was friends with cousins Davis and Conway. In 2014, Coleman served on the Operation Five Leaf Clover drug investigation task force, which began to focus on people whom Coleman…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 17-1895
Justia Opinion Summary: Calvert was the sole owner of E.L.C., an electrical contracting company. After a labor organization unsuccessfully campaigned to unionize his workforce, Calvert laid off most of E.L.C.’s electricians, effectively…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2068
Justia Opinion Summary: Bard manufactures a surgical patch, consisting of two pieces of mesh that surround a flexible plastic ring. During a hernia repair, the patch is folded to fit through a small incision, then the plastic ring springs back…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3266
Justia Opinion Summary: Under Wisconsin’s open-enrollment program, a public-school student can apply to transfer from his resident school district to a nonresident district that has available space. The program distinguishes between regular…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1310
Justia Opinion Summary: Griffith, age 52, pled guilty to receiving, distributing, and possessing child pornography (18 U.S.C. 2252A) and was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment. Griffith’s crimes included 477 photographs and 11 videos of…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 15-3395
Justia Opinion Summary: The Seventh Circuit previously remanded for a determination of whether May had submitted a notice of appeal on or before August 10, 2015, in compliance with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c). The district court…
Date: January 17, 2019
Docket Number: 16-2381
Justia Opinion Summary: Lund and 30 others were charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin. The indictment alleged that the conspiracy resulted in overdose deaths of five individuals, 21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1)(A). Lund pleaded guilty but denied…
Date: January 17, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1432
Justia Opinion Summary: The church converted a single-family residence in a Markham residential district into its house of worship. For more than 15 years, the congregation gathered at the house for worship services, choir rehearsals, and Bible…
Date: January 16, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2994
Justia Opinion Summary: Eight men entered a Chicago rail-yard, broke into a parked cargo train, and discovered firearms being shipped to a distributor. They stole over 100 guns. The government claimed, and one robber (Turner) testified, that…
Date: January 16, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3107
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) brought charges before the Pollution Control Board against EOR Energy and AET Environmental under the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, 415 ILCS 5/1–5/58,…
Date: January 15, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2447
Justia Opinion Summary: Mittelstadt’s Richland County, Wisconsin land was enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), from 1987-2006. CRP participants agree to remove environmentally…
Date: January 15, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2521
Justia Opinion Summary: Rainsberger was charged with murdering his elderly mother and was held for two months. He claims that the detective who built the case against him, Benner, submitted a probable cause affidavit that contained lies and…
Date: January 14, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-1649, 17-1310
Justia Opinion Summary: Allstate investigated suspicious trading on its equity desk and unearthed email evidence that portfolio managers were timing trades to inflate their bonuses at the expense of portfolios, including pension funds to which…
Date: January 14, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-1656, 17-2846
Justia Opinion Summary: Websites like Airbnb serve as intermediaries, providing homeowners a forum for advertising short-term rentals of their homes and helping prospective renters find rooms and houses for temporary stays. Chicago’s 2016…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2151
Justia Opinion Summary: Maier was convicted of threatening Wisconsin state court judges in 2006. In 2011, Maier mailed a handwritten letter to the jurors in that case, stating that after being “skrewed” and serving two years in prison, Maier…
Date: January 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1388
Justia Opinion Summary: Four men conspired to sell heroin to an undercover officer. Arturo and Enemicio had phone conversations with the officers, arranging to sell 995 grams of heroin for $180,000. Enemicio drove Arturo to the officer’s car.…
Date: January 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1054
Justia Opinion Summary: BankDirect and Capital make loans to finance insurance premiums. In 2010, Capital, having exhausted the line of credit, approached BankDirect, which was willing to purchase Capital's loans and pay Capital to service…
Date: January 8, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1930
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 2016, two plaintiffs sued Metra and several of its employees, alleging racial discrimination under 42 U.S.C. 1983. An amended complaint named 11 plaintiffs and 10 defendants, with additional claims of racial…
Date: January 7, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3466
Justia Opinion Summary: Chicago police officers stopped a Toyota after it sped out of an alley. The driver fled, leaving several passengers. Officer Morlock pursued the driver. The Toyota rolled and wedged itself against Flaherty’s squad car. …
Date: January 7, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3543
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1977, Peoria police officers arrested 14-year-old Savory for the rape and murder of Cooper and the murder of Cooper’s 14-year-old brother. Savory claims that officers subjected him to an abusive 31-hour interrogation;…
Date: January 7, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1815
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Fisker, a manufacturer of luxury hybrid electric cars, became part of a trend in venture capital investments toward green energy technology start-ups. The Department of Energy advanced Fisker $192 million on a…
Date: January 4, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1205
Justia Opinion Summary: Yafai and Ahmed were born, raised, and married in Yemen. Yafai became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2001 and successfully filed I‐130 petitions on behalf of his wife and several of their children. Ahmed and her children…
Date: January 3, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3642
Justia Opinion Summary: Neilitz purchased $125,000 worth of ECS stock; Rawah Partners invested $350,000. In 2008, Corrigan, ECS’s President and CEO, negotiated a sale of ECS. Because of the worldwide financial downturn, the sale fell through.…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 16-1907
Justia Opinion Summary: Mitchell enrolled in an Elgin Community College online criminal-justice course. The instructor, an Elgin police officer, eventually advised her that she was failing the course. Soon after, the police department received…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2980
Justia Opinion Summary: The inmate sued Pendleton Correctional Industrial Facility (CIF) and Indiana Department of Corrections officials, alleging that they prevented him from participating fully in Moorish Science Temple of America services…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1579
Justia Opinion Summary: Hagen was convicted twice under Illinois law for failing to get her children to school (Guardian Allows Child Truancy). She later pleaded guilty in federal court for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. The district…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1799
Justia Opinion Summary: Beltran-Aguilar, a citizen of Mexico, applied for cancellation of removal. The BIA affirmed the denial of his application. The Seventh Circuit denied a petition for review. Beltran-Aguilar’s conviction for Wisconsin…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2432
Justia Opinion Summary: The Seventh Circuit previously concluded that people whose property is taken into custody by Illinois under its Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, 765 ILCS 1026/15-607, are entitled to receive the time value of their…
Date: January 2, 2019
Docket Number: 18-2805
Justia Opinion Summary: An April 2016 Chicago Police Accountability Task Force report indicated that the Chicago Police Department’s “response to violence is not sufficiently imbued with Constitutional policing tactics.” In January 2017, the…
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