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7th Circuit Digest

Sep 26, 2021

Insurance Claim – Duty to Defend

The questions in this appeal arose from a fatal on-the-job accident on a commercial roofing project.

Sep 26, 2021

Motion in Limine – Expert Testimony

Marjory Dingwall was charged with three counts of robbery and three counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Sep 26, 2021

Sentencing Guidelines

A jury convicted defendant Keenan Rollerson on drug and firearm charges but acquitted him on other drug charges.

Sep 26, 2021

Insurance Claim – Provider Agreement – Arbitration

In 2013, Dr. Robert L. Meinders, D.C., Ltd., received a single fax advertisement from United Healthcare Services, Inc., a company with whom Meinders had done business for around seven years.

Sep 26, 2021

Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act – Written Warranty – Jurisdiction

7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Tawanna Ware, et al., v. Best Buy Stores, L.P., Case No.: 20-1641 Officials: ROVNER, HAMILTON, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges. Focus: Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act – Written Warranty – Jurisdiction This appeal raises a question of first impression about the definition of “written warranty” provided in the Magnuson‐Moss Warranty […]

Sep 26, 2021

Immigration – Removal Order

Bukola Lomi Omowole seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the findings of two immigration judges that she is both removable from the United States for having procured an entry visa by fraud and not entitled to asylum or withholding of removal.

Sep 26, 2021

Sentencing Guidelines

In 1994, Michael Millis was found guilty of several crimes related to a pair of armed robberies in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Sep 26, 2021

ERISA – Breach of Fiduciary Duty

We consider in this case whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts certain state-law claims brought by bankruptcy creditors on behalf of a company against its directors and officers and others alleged to have inflated the company’s stock value to conceal the company’s decline and to benefit corporate insiders. We hold that ERISA does not preempt the plaintiffs’ cla[...]

Sep 26, 2021

Failure to State Claim

For Gorgi Talevski, living with dementia went from difficult to worse during his stay at Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a state-run nursing facility near his family home in Indiana.

Sep 26, 2021

Bankruptcy – Priorities

Employee benefit plans come in many shapes and sizes.

Sep 21, 2021

Habeas Relief – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

A jury convicted Alonso Corral of attempted homicide after two men who knew him swore that he shot at them.

Sep 21, 2021

Fair Labor Standards Act – Individual Claims – Time-barred

Between November 2011 and August 2013, Peggy Jo Smith worked for Professional Transportation Inc. (PTI), a company that transports railroad crews to and from their places of work.

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