FOIA Sanctions Must Not Force Overbroad Disclosure That Harms Innocent Third Parties; FOIA Release Injunctions Must Satisfy Rule 65(d) Case: Jacqueline Stevens v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND...
FOIA Sanctions Must Not Compel Overbroad Disclosure: Rule 65 Specificity and Protection of Innocent Third-Party Interests Introduction In Jacqueline Stevens v. ICE, the Seventh Circuit reviewed a...
Probable Cause for Device Searches in Sex-Trafficking Investigations Survives Initial Victim Denials; Experience-Based Trafficking Expert Testimony Admissible Under Daubert When Narrowly Cabined...
Experience-Based Sex-Trafficking Expert Testimony and Digital-Nexus Probable Cause: Narrow Tailoring Under Daubert, No Franks Hearing for Non-Material “Initial Denial” Omissions Case: United States...
Seventh Circuit: Below-Guidelines Sentences Satisfy § 3553(a)(6), and “Risk-Notification” Supervised-Release Conditions Must Be Specifically Defined I. Introduction In United States v. Daniel Quiggle...
CAFA Mass-Action “Local Event or Occurrence” Exception Is Jurisdictional and Turns on the Injury-Causing Event Case: Tushawn Craig v. City of Richmond, Indiana (7th Cir. June 18, 2026) Court: United...
Email-Initiated Transfer Fraud Exclusion Applies to Fraudulent Instructions Sent to the Insured, Even When Sent Internally from a Compromised Employee Account Introduction Office of the Special...
Hensley “Results Obtained” Allows Across-the-Board Lodestar Cuts Even for Interrelated Claims When Success Is Limited Immanuel Baptist Church v. City of Chicago (7th Cir. June 18, 2026)...
AIR 21 Petitions Must Be Received Within 60 Days: Mailing, E-Filing Rules, and the Limits of Equitable Tolling 1. Introduction Soma G. Priddle v. LABR is a Seventh Circuit petition-for-review case...
FHA Claims Falter When Housing Is Offered and Withdrawn: Disparate-Impact Requires Statistical Causation; Retaliation Requires Adverse Interference; Standing Requires Concrete Denial, Not Stigma 1....
Essential-Term Certainty and Proof of Reliance: Limits on Contract, Fraud, and “Advisory” Misrepresentation Claims in Pre-Contract Collaborations Case: Peters Broadcast Engineering, Inc. v. PEM...
Proportionality Limits on Sweeping Prison-Video Discovery and the Bad-Faith Threshold for Spoliation Sanctions (Seventh Circuit) Case: Littleton Jackson v. David Yang, et al. (No. 25-1973) Court:...
CAFA Jurisdiction Tracks the Operative Amended Complaint: Dropping (and Repleading) Class Allegations Can Remove (and Restore) Federal Jurisdiction I. Introduction Thor Zurbriggen, et al. v. Twin...
Probable Cause to Impound a Vehicle “Used During the Commission” Includes Transportation to the Offense Location I. Introduction In Raymond Echevarria v. Darrin Jackson (7th Cir. June 16, 2026),...
Objective Cognitive Testing and Recordwide Review Can Outweigh a Treating Psychiatrist’s Subjective-Based Opinion; Unraised Theories Are Waived on Appeal Introduction In Jill Staniszewski v. Frank...
Post-Snyder Alternative-Theory Error: Multi-Object § 371 Conspiracies and Pinkerton FCPA Convictions Must Be Vacated Absent Certainty the Jury Convicted on a Valid Object Case: United States v....
Seventh Circuit Requires Vacatur of Multi-Object Conspiracy and Pinkerton-Based FCPA Convictions When Snyder-Invalid § 666 Objects May Have Driven a General Verdict I. Introduction United States v....
Ultra Vires Conduct Does Not Establish Monell “Official Policy” When State Law Unequivocally Commands the Opposite Case: Gary Betts v. Boone County, Illinois, No. 25-1685 Court: United States Court...
FOIA Adequate-Search Review: Dissimilar Search Locations Across Requests Are Not Per Se Unreasonable, and New Search-Term/Good-Faith Challenges Are Forfeited on Appeal I. Introduction In Jacqueline...
Nexus Is Dispositive: The Agency Need Not Reach “Past Persecution” Where Harm Reflects Extortion or Perceived Wealth Rather Than a Protected Ground Case: Juana Garcia Rodriguez v. Todd W. Blanche...