ALJ Review – Disability Benefits
Dragan Kaplarevic filed for disability insurance benefits in December 2012, alleging that he became disabled on August 1, 2012.
De Novo Review – Malpractice Claim
Plaintiff Linda Bergal brought this malpractice case against her attorney Ben Roth, his law firm, and accountant Joseph Sanders.
Summary Judgment – Sufficiency of Evidence
Defendants Champion Petfoods USA Inc. and Champion Petfoods LP (collectively, “Champion”) produce dog food that they market as biologically appropriate, containing fresh regional ingredients, and never outsourced.
Court Error – Standard of Competency
Jacob Wessel had a history of mental issues. On August 11, 2016, he allegedly raised a gun toward a police officer.
Immigration – Removal Order
Petitioner Victor Mejia-Padilla (“Mejia”) seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the denial of his statutory motion to reopen his deportation proceeding, which he filed more than six years after that proceeding closed.
Statutory Interpretation – Alternative Fuel Mixture Tax Credit
Statutory interpretation is familiar territory for federal courts, and this appeal requires us to resolve a dispute over the scope of a statutory credit—taken against excise fuel taxes—that Congress made available to producers of “alternative fuel mixtures.”
Standing to Sue – Jurisdiction
Prairie Rivers Network is an Illinois non-profit organization that advocates for clean water and healthy rivers.
Time-barred
“Better late than never” is not a phrase typically heard in a federal courthouse.
Failure to State Claim
In August 2016 Millicent Nartey was admitted to a hospital where she suffered a stroke and eventually passed away.
Insurance Claim – Coverage
StarNet Insurance Company filed suit in diversity seeking a declaratory judgment specifying that the terms of a workers’ compensation and employers liability policy it issued to P.S. Demolition, Inc. obligate it to pay nothing more for a workplace injury than the amounts that Illinois workers’ compensation law requires P.S. Demolition to pay its injured employees.
8th Amendment Violation – Summary Judgment
Adrian Thomas sued several prison officials at Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois alleging they violated the Eighth Amendment by restricting him for two months to a cell with feces on the walls, a mattress covered in human waste, a bunk bed with a hundred dead flies, and inadequate plumbing that caused him to develop a rash.
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- United Healthcare suit against cancer drug distributor time-barred
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