'Far-Reaching Implications': Hague Service Convention Bans Email Process Service to Chinese Defendants, Seventh Circuit Rules

"It ... means that many thousands of cases were wrongly decided, and default judgments were wrongly entered," said ...
JD Supra

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds That BIPA Amendment Limiting Damages Applies Retroactively

In a highly anticipated and significant opinion impacting pending lawsuits, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed three district court orders and held that a ...

Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (7th Cir.)

The Seventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Coast Guard on a First Amendment claim by a White vice flotilla commander removed for inappropriate LinkedIn posts while in uniform, finding the ...
KWQC

Madigan’s high-powered appeals team urges 7th Circuit to overturn speaker’s conviction

CHICAGO, Ill. (CNI) - As former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan approaches six months in a West Virginia federal prison, the high-profile legal team he hired to handle his appeal made ...

Rockford Pregnancy Center challenges abortion rights law in court

A Rockford Pregnancy Care Center and the Illinois Catholic diocese are challenging a law meant to protect abortion rights ...
Hoodline

Teamsters Pension Scores As Court OKs Ouster Of Penske's Dallas Unit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has thrown its weight behind a Teamsters multiemployer pension fund, clearing trustees to expel a Penske Truck Leasing bargaining unit in Dallas and ...
JD Supra

Seventh Circuit Holds BIPA Damages Amendment Applies Retroactively

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently resolved a critical question left open by Illinois’ August 2, 2024 amendment to the Biometric Information ...