These appeals stem from an action brought in 2010 by Nathson Fields, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors.

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This is a case of a disgruntled entrepreneur trying to spin her business difficulties into constitutional claims.

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Federal judges have long been able to release prisoners for compassionate reasons such as terminal illness.

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Paul Elmer owned and operated multiple healthcare-related companies including Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals.

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Fadeel Shuhaiber is confined to a wheelchair. Following the district court’s dismissal of claims he brought against the Illinois Department of Corrections under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act, Shuhaiber appealed and, based on his impoverished status, sought permission to proceed on appeal without prepaying the requisite filing fee.

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Devin Dawson violated the conditions of his supervised release after his release from prison.

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Without permission from Epic Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (“TCS”) downloaded, from 2012 to 2014, thousands of documents containing Epic’s confidential information and trade secrets.

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Adel Daoud pressed the button to detonate a bomb that would have killed hundreds of innocent people in the name of Islam.

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Kurt Johnson elected to represent himself at trial on federal fraud charges.

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It is ORDERED that the opinion in this case issued October 21, 2020, is amended as follows: In the first line of the first sentence of the first paragraph under “I. BACKGROUND” on page two, strike “three counts” and replace that phrase with “one count”.

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As its name suggests, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA” or “the Act”) protects a person’s privacy interests in his biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, retina and iris scans, hand scans, and facial geometry.

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The Randolph-Sheppard Act provides economic opportunities by granting blind persons priority to operate vending facilities at certain government properties.

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Plaintiffs Tai Matlin and James Waring have spent seventeen years embroiled in disputes related to the intellectual property claims at issue in this case.

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This appeal presents several related issues about how federal judges should decide whether sentences in federal prosecutions should run consecutively to or concurrently with separate sentences in unrelated state prosecutions.

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Jeremy Hogenkamp pleaded guilty to a federal crime and was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment plus 25 years’ supervised release.

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Caught in a fit of road rage, Keli Calderone shot another driver with her handgun.

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Plaintiff Brad Sandefur is a corrections officer for the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois.

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Richard Turner died during an encounter with police officers in Champaign, Illinois.

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Many Q&As with appellate judges draw a question whether amicus curiae briefs add value to deciding cases.

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This case calls for us to determine whether the district court properly dismissed the plaintiff’s amended complaint without prejudice under the doctrine of derivative jurisdiction even though that complaint invoked federal jurisdiction.

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The Democratic National Committee and other plaintiffs contend in this suit that statutes affecting the registration of voters and the conduct of this November’s election, although constitutional in principle, see Luft v. Evers, 963 F.3d 665 (7th Cir. 2020), will abridge some voters’ rights during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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Section 1782(a) of Title 28 authorizes the district court to order a person within the district to give testimony or produce documents “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal.”

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In 1996 the federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas sentenced Bruce Webster to death for the murder two years earlier of a 16-year-old girl.

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Christopher Vialva has been sentenced to death for murders he committed in 1999.

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Rumael Green was indicted for possession of a firearm by a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

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Matthew Moultrie was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).

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Petitioner‐appellee filed a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc on September 1, 2020.

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Indiana University student Jill Behrman went for a bike ride one morning but never returned.

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Rashod Bethany participated in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in Chicago.

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Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 amended the mandatory minimum sentence for certain firearm offenses.

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