Seventh Circuit Grants Immunity to Deputy Who Ran Red Light While Distracted
A Milwaukee County deputy who killed a driver while looking at his phone or dashboard computer was negligent but did not violate due process, the court held.
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Seventh Circuit Affirms Hospital's COVID Vaccine Firing, Maps Post-Groff Hardship Evidence
Split panel holds Cook County's CDC-grounded affidavits overcame pharmacist's religious challenge where she offered no evidence masking was a reasonable alternative.
Seventh Circuit rejects First Amendment claim for access to Indiana executions
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction sought by the Associated Press and other media plaintiffs challenging Indiana’s execution-witness policy.
Seventh Circuit: Egan's Security-Clearance Bar Is Not Jurisdictional
In affirming dismissal of a retaliation suit against DHS, the Seventh Circuit held that Department of the Navy v. Egan's limit on reviewing security-clearance decisions goes to the merits, not the court's power to hear the case—reshaping how defense counsel must plead the defense.
Seventh Circuit Backs VA In Pharmacist’s Bias, Retaliation Suit
The Seventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Department of Veterans Affairs, finding a fired pharmacist lacked evidence that medication-error discipline masked race bias or retaliation.
Seventh Circuit Upholds SBA's $20M PPP Group Cap
The panel said the SBA acted within its emergency authority when it treated commonly controlled nursing homes as one corporate group for Paycheck Protection Program limits.
Seventh Circuit Backs SBA's PPP Cap For Nursing Home Group
The panel said the SBA could apply a $20 million corporate-group limit to commonly controlled nursing homes seeking Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness.
Seventh Circuit Backs SBA's PPP Cap For Nursing Home Group
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the Small Business Administration's use of a $20 million corporate-group cap to limit loan forgiveness for commonly controlled nursing homes that received pandemic-era PPP funds.
Seventh Circuit Backs Elgin Officers In Standoff Force Suit
The Seventh Circuit held that an Illinois man shot with nonlethal police rounds during a standoff failed to identify clearly established law defeating qualified immunity.
7th Circ. Backs Use Of Defendant-Produced WhatsApp Chats
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a wire fraud and money laundering conviction, holding that using a defendant’s own discovery production as one circumstance to authenticate incriminating messages did not violate his right to testify.
Seventh Circuit Lets Illinois Fraud Case Survive Texas Plea Deal
The panel said a Southern District of Texas plea agreement did not block a later Central District of Illinois wire fraud conspiracy prosecution.
7th Circ. Keeps Immigration Review Petitions Alive After Riley
The Seventh Circuit rejected the government’s bid to dismiss two noncitizens’ petitions as untimely, holding they can invoke equitable tolling after the U.S. Supreme Court reset the filing clock for withholding-only proceedings.
Seventh Circuit Says Texas Plea Deal Did Not Bar Illinois Fraud Case
A Seventh Circuit panel held that a Southern District of Texas plea agreement with Babajide Adefusi bound only that U.S. Attorney's Office, leaving federal prosecutors in Illinois free to pursue a later wire fraud conspiracy case.
Seventh Circuit Revives Cocaine Defendant's Pretext Challenge To Truck Stop
The panel said an Illinois trooper's motives could matter when a commercial-trucking inspection is used to justify a warrantless stop.
Seventh Circuit Revives Educator's First Amendment Belief-Retaliation Claim
The panel affirmed the defeat of Becky Spengler's Title VII and equal protection claims but said her public-employee compelled-belief theory was sufficiently pleaded.
Seventh Circuit Upholds 27-Year Meth Sentence
The panel said an Illinois federal judge properly treated Malaia Turner as a leader in a methamphetamine conspiracy and found no reversible error in the drug-quantity calculations used at sentencing.
Seventh Circuit Upholds Gun Conviction After Dog-Sniff Car Search
The panel said a Decatur, Illinois, traffic stop was valid, the dog sniff did not unlawfully prolong it, and the evidence was enough to show constructive possession.
Seventh Circuit Rejects Serbian Soccer Player's Asylum Bid
The panel said threats and an assault by Serbian soccer hooligans reflected personal and performance-related grievances, not persecution tied to a protected ground.
7th Circ. Keeps Post-Riley Removal Petitions Alive
The Seventh Circuit rejected the federal government's bid to toss two noncitizens' petitions for review as untimely, holding that equitable tolling can preserve post-Riley challenges tied to withholding-only and CAT proceedings.
Seventh Circuit Keeps Post-Riley Immigration Petitions Alive
The panel said two noncitizens seeking withholding-only or Convention Against Torture protection may use equitable tolling to overcome Riley's 30-day filing rule.
7th Circ. Backs WhatsApp Evidence In Fraud Conviction
The Seventh Circuit affirmed Luisito Espanola's wire fraud and money laundering convictions, holding that using his own discovery production as part of the authentication analysis did not violate his right to testify.