Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals News

Prosecutor tells jury that defendant took credit for encouraging the 2005 murders of relatives of a federal judge Mark Fass New York Law Journal December 03, 2009 Opening arguments took place Wednesday in the Brooklyn federal court trial of Hal Turner, the New Jersey blogger and Internet-radio talk-show host accused of threatening on his blog to ...

That says an employer is liable for discrimination when a final decision-maker is influenced by a lower-level employee with discriminatory motives to take an adverse action against another worker.

A former Leetonia man imprisoned since 2007 for attacking his former wife with a broken beer bottle recently asked to withdraw his guilty plea, but the judge denied the request.

The Senate on Thursday voted 59-39 to confirm U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton to the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, the New York Times reports.

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, a native of La Salle, will discuss legal issues Tuesday, Dec.

A Rock County man sentenced to two years in federal prison for shooting a deer while he was on probation for domestic violence has had his case overturned by a federal appeals court.

Harry Reid is tired of waiting. For months now, the Senate majority leader has wanted to confirm one of President Obama's judicial nominees, David Hamilton, who is up for a spot on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.' Over many decades, people have argued whether the Second Amendment is an individual right or a collective right - meaning limited to people in ...

Blogroll Archives 75% of Senate Republicans Flip on Judicial Filibusters Posted on: November 24, 2009 9:02 AM, by Ed Brayton The Senate finally confirmed Obama's first judicial nominee, Judge David Hamilton, for a spot on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, after months of delay from Republicans - the same Republicans who went ballistic when the same ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The man whose 1993 killing of a 10-year-old boy led to a state sex-offender registry law was sentenced Monday to life without parole.

"These Judges deserve to be killed," declared Harold "Hal" Turner on his Web site on June 2. He was attacking three federal judges who earlier that day had upheld Chicago-area bans on handguns.

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man barred from owning firearms because of his criminal record, ruling the lifetime prohibition may violate Americans' Second Amendment rights and calling into question the future of a 13-year old gun control law.

How Not to Win Elections : The ten Senate Republicans who broke the filibuster Tuesday against Barack Obama's nomination of radical Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals may find themselves in some hot water back home.

U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton, poised for a Senate confirmation vote today on his nomination to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, blocked Indiana's "informed consent" abortion law from taking effect for seven years, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had upheld a similar law and that "no court" had restricted such a law since.

A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man barred from owning firearms because of his criminal record, ruling the lifetime prohibition may violate Americans' Second Amendment rights and calling into question the future of a 13-year old gun control law.

The case of the missing mezuzah will go to trial. Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, ruled that a case may go forward involving a family's fight to affix a small box containing Hebrew religious texts, known as a mezuzah, to the doorposts of their condominium units.

From the CBS News legal blog: A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man barred from owning firearms because of his criminal record, ruling the lifetime prohibition may violate Americans' Second Amendment rights and calling into question the future of a 13-year old gun control law.

Stimulus jobs: Government auditors raised doubts Thursday about the number of jobs created or saved by the economic-stimulus program, but they also said mistakes reported in recent weeks signal the benefits of government transparency.