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Case Digests - 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Feb 6, 2023

Suppression of Evidence

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

Feb 6, 2023

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.

Feb 6, 2023

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.

Feb 6, 2023

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.

Feb 6, 2023

Automatic Gun Possession – Standing

This suit is about a person’s right to have a gun part called a “drop-in auto sear.”

Jan 30, 2023

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.

Jan 30, 2023

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.

Jan 30, 2023

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.

Jan 30, 2023

Career Offender Sentencing

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

Jan 30, 2023

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.

Jan 30, 2023

Sentencing Guidelines

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

Jan 30, 2023

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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