Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals News

Attorneys who have appeared before Chief U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa generally wouldn't call him soft.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit accusing Morgan Stanley of costing the former chairman of 21st Century Telecom Group Inc and other shareholders millions of dollars over a ...

August 20, 2008 Restricting consumer choice, judicially In spite of the 2005 Supreme Court decision which should have opened up the wine trade, there are still lots of barriers between wineries and wine ...

TUESDAY, Aug. 19, 2008, 6:27 p.m. By John Diedrich Brookfield couple lose slave case appeal A federal judge went too easy on a Brookfield couple when he sentenced them to four years in prison for forcing a ...

Can a Woman be Fired for Absenteeism Related to Fertility Treatments? A Federal Court of Appeals Says No.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has ruled against the village of DePue's attempts to fine Exxon/Mobil Corp.

A growing number of employers are hiring private investigators to spy on employees suspected of taking leave dishonestly under the Family Medical Leave Act .

Ind. Decisions - Still more on: "Love the wine? You must visit the vine" The decision of the 7th Circuit August 7th in the case of Baude v. Heath is the subject of a long story today by Supriya Sinhababu in the ...

Donald Horina says that he's "rejoicing" over a federal appellate court ruling that upheld an earlier court ruling that a Granite City ordinance regulating the distribution of handbills was unconstitutional.

The on Wednesday examined a recent ruling by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that could strengthen legal job protections for women undergoing fertility treatments.

WASHINGTON Amerigroup Corporation has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve claims that it defrauded the Illinois Medicaid program, the Justice Department and the Attorney General of Illinois announced today.

A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of an Indiana man sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of his estranged wife and two of her relatives.

In Wrinkles v. Buss , a 53-page, 2-1 opinion, Judge Kanne writes: This case is before the court on collateral review.

In the New Republic , Seventh Circuit judge Richard A. Posner has a long essay that criticizes Justice Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller and argues that the Supreme Court should ...

One is the wine shipping case, Baude v. Heath . For background, see this ILB entry from Feb.

I'm delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Waldeck will be joining Concurring Opinions as a permablogger.

Judges toss out ruling that let you simply order online; Hoosiers must appear in person for an ID check first Hoosiers who want to order wine by phone or over the Internet once again will have to make ...

Included in a 25-page affidavit [ pdf] that was among the papers released Wednesday, August 6th, 2008, was a possible explanation for the use of "4th Grade, Greendale School" as a partial return address on the ...

Taxpayers cannot sue the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for incorporating religion into its health care programs for the nation's veterans, an appeals court has ruled.

Under the U.S. Supreme Court 's ruling in Georgia v. Randolph , when a wife consents to a police search of the marital home but the husband objects, can the police validly rely on the wife's consent to search ...