Strict Rule 56.1 Enforcement and FMLA Third-Opinion Noncooperation: Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment in Brown v. Chicago Transit Authority 1. Introduction Russia Brown v. Chicago Transit...
TCPA Vicarious Liability in Multi-Tier Telemarketing Requires Authority at Each Delegation Level; Treble Damages Require Knowing or Reckless Violations Case: Robert Hossfeld v. Allstate Insurance...
Speculation Cannot Prove Knowledge or Personal Responsibility: Summary Judgment Standards for Prison Retaliation and Eighth Amendment Claims Case: Stanley Boclair v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. (No....
Referral Specialists Are Not State Actors Absent State Control: Seventh Circuit Reaffirms Limits of § 1983 Liability for Private Prisoner Care 1. Introduction In Denon Taylor v. Samuel Byrd (7th Cir....
Seventh Circuit Tightens TCPA Vicarious Liability: Subagency Requires Authority at Each Delegation Level; Treble Damages Require Knowing or Reckless Violations I. Introduction Parties. Robert...
LHWCA § 20(a) “Harm” Includes Respiratory Symptoms Without a Definitive Diagnosis; Fee Challenges Are Waived Without Record Support Case: Jeffboat, Incorporated v. Director, OWCP (7th Cir. June 23,...
RFRA Permits a Total Supervised-Release Alcohol Ban Despite a Requested Sabbath Wine Exception When the Record Shows Any Drinking Predictably Triggers Dangerous Relapse I. Introduction In United...
Stays Denied Where a State Attorney General’s Out-of-State Enforcement Suit Appears Retaliatory and Bad-Faith: Younger’s Bad-Faith Exception and “Express Aiming” Jurisdiction 1. Introduction American...
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:...