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Case Digests – 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Contracts- Employment Law

Plaintiff Ross worked as a sales representative for defendant First Financial Corporate Services, Inc. until January 2018.

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Riparian Right – Land Use

In the late 1930s, Milwaukee County built a dam on the Milwaukee River in Estabrook Park, an urban green space that runs along the east bank of the river where the City of Milwaukee borders suburban Shorewood and Whitefish Bay.

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Fourth Amendment – Suppression

In April 2021 the Springfield, Illinois police saw a Snapchat post of Banks barbequing on his front porch with a gun sitting on the grill’s side shelf.

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Fourteenth Amendment

This appeal is a sequel to the decision in Bradley v. Village of University Park, 929 F.3d 875 (7th Cir. 2019) (Bradley I).

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Prisoner – Excessive Force

Smallwood, an Indiana inmate, alleged physical and sexual abuse, excessive force, and mistreatment at the hands of prison employees and independent contractors associated with the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC).

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Corporate Contributions to PACs

The Fund appealed the dismissal of its challenge to Indiana’s prohibition on corporate contributions to political action committees (PACs) for independent expenditures.

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Forfeiture of Funds

Suspecting that Troconis-Escovar was involved in the illegal drug business, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) decided to search his vehicle.

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Suppression of Evidence

Collins supplied wholesale quantities of heroin to a drug trafficking organization on the west side of Chicago.

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FLSA – Lunch Break Compensation

After she was fired, Wirth sued her former employer, RLJ Dental, S.C., for retaliation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and for violations of Wisconsin’s Wage Payment and Collection Laws.

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Collective Bargaining Agreement – Arbitration

United Natural Foods, Inc., and its corporate affiliates filed suit against Teamsters Local 414 contending that the Local breached its collective bargaining agreement with the company by initiating two strikes at United Natural’s Fort Wayne, Indiana distribution center.

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Contracts – Diversity

In May 2019, Yancheng Shanda Yuanfeng Equity Investment Partnership (“Yancheng Shanda”) filed a contract claim in a Chinese court against Kevin Wan, his company, and his brother.

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Definition of “Professional Relationship”

A statute in Indiana makes it a crime for anyone who “has or had” a professional relation with a person under the age of 18 to “use[] or exert[] the person’s professional relationship to engage in sexual intercourse” with that young person.

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Career Offender Sentencing

After pleading guilty in the Western District of Wisconsin to distributing methamphetamine, Von Vader was sentenced to 270 months’ imprisonment.

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Takings Clause

In 1993 the Village of Channahon, Illinois, approved the plat of a residential subdivision lying within the DuPage River Special Flood Hazard Area.

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Sentencing Guidelines

Benny Butler downloaded, distributed, and shared a vast amount of child pornography via internet chat rooms catering to this trade.

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