Creation Supply, Inc., bought insurance from Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast. Selective denied coverage, and Creation sued for breach of contract and won.
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Case Digests – 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Wrongful Termination – NLRB Ruling – Contempt
Parties ignore court orders at their peril.
Read More »Contracts- Employment Law
Plaintiff Ross worked as a sales representative for defendant First Financial Corporate Services, Inc. until January 2018.
Read More »Postconviction Motion – Sentence Reduction
Appellant Miedzianowski is serving a life sentence for leading a criminal conspiracy while he was also working as a Chicago police officer.
Read More »4th Amendment Violation – Immunity
One day in April 2020, Amanda Pierner-Lytge, a private security office and Second Amendment supporter, strapped a rifle to her back and walked to a local park.
Read More »Suppression of Statements – Miranda Rights
Olivas Bailon accompanied a friend on a road trip from Aurora, Illinois to Chicago for a drug transaction.
Read More »Sentencing – Sufficiency of Evidence
Driving alone in Indianapolis, Richardson committed a traffic violation and was stopped by police.
Read More »Immigration – Jurisdiction – 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i)
Britkovyy is a Ukrainian citizen who hopes to become a lawful permanent resident of the United States.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Sentence Modification – Fraud
Klund purports to supply electrical parts.
Read More »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).
Read More »Evidence – Grand Jury Inquiry
Doe Corporation is the target of a federal grand-jury investigation for suspected criminal violations of the Clean Water Act.
Read More »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).
Read More »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.
Read More »Federal Rule of Evidence – Expert Testimony Admissability
Anderson worked as a standup forklift operator at a FedEx warehouse in Effingham, Illinois. While pulling a load in July 2017, she hit a bump and fell out of the forklift onto the floor.
Read More »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.
Read More »Disability Filing – Expert Witness
Sevec filed for disability and social security benefits in December 2017 and February 2018, respectively, alleging an onset of disability of May 1, 2014.
Read More »Suppression of Evidence
Collins supplied wholesale quantities of heroin to a drug trafficking organization on the west side of Chicago.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Automatic Gun Possession – Standing
This suit is about a person’s right to have a gun part called a “drop-in auto sear.”
Read More »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.
Read More »Labor Law – Rights of Aviation Security Officers
Between 1993 and 2017, the City of Chicago treated aviation security officers at O’Hare Airport as law-enforcement personnel, able to make arrests while employed and to carry concealed firearms after retirement.
Read More »Fair Trial – Jury Selection
Alt planned to meet with a fifteen-year-old boy whom he met on Grindr to smoke marijuana and engage in sexual activity.
Read More »Career Offender Sentencing
After pleading guilty in the Western District of Wisconsin to distributing methamphetamine, Von Vader was sentenced to 270 months’ imprisonment.
Read More »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.
Read More »Sentencing Guidelines
Benny Butler downloaded, distributed, and shared a vast amount of child pornography via internet chat rooms catering to this trade.
Read More »Cancellation of Removal – Abuse of Discretion
Cruz‐Velasco, a native and citizen of Mexico, is seeking cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b). Cruz‐Velasco entered the U.S. without inspection in 1999.
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