Insurance Claim – Duty to Defend
The questions in this appeal arose from a fatal on-the-job accident on a commercial roofing project.
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.
Sentencing Guidelines
A jury convicted defendant Keenan Rollerson on drug and firearm charges but acquitted him on other drug charges.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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[...]
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.
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.
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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