Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals News

Insurance company Amerigroup Corp. announced Tuesday it has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against pregnant women and other high-risk patients for $234 million.

Insurance company Amerigroup Corp. announced Tuesday it has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against pregnant women and other high-risk patients for $234 million.

The Indiana Supreme Court last month upheld the 2006 conviction of a Richmond man on drug-dealing charges, but the court case will not end there.

Cross posted from ICPR 's blog, The Race is On : October 24, 2007, was a busy day in Illinois.

The inclusion of Illinois Courts Bulletin pages in the ISBA Bar News has been discontinued, effective with this issue.

State and federal authorities are close to settling a lawsuit with a former Illinois health-insurance provider that was found liable for fraud for intentionally not enrolling pregnant women and other high-risk ...

"U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia spoke at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference": You can view this past Saturday's broadcast of C-SPAN's " America & the ...

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals denied the asylum petitions of two Indonesian citizens, we hold that the Board acted permissibly based on an immigration judge's finding, supported by substantial ...

On Monday, July 14, Daniel appeared in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin before Judge Barbara Crabb and was found in civil contempt for his refusal to answer questions before a grand jury.

Seventh Circuit rejects Commerce Clause challenge to federal child pornography conviction where the defendant demonstrated that the pornography was videotaped at the defendant's home in Wisconsin, for his ...

In a first-of-its-kind legal case that could have implications for women across the nation, federal judges have ruled that a Dyer woman should not have been fired for taking time off of work to undergo in vitro ...

Amerigroup Corp. and plaintiffs asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit for an additional 30 days to determine whether they can reach a settlement related to Amerigroup's appeal of a 2006 fraud ...

BNA's Daily Labor Report has an article on a Seventh Circuit decision that--at least to my non-expert ear--sounds a bit odd.

Conrad Black's lawyers are preparing the legal groundwork to present his case to the U. S. Supreme Court, but first filed another appeal with the three Seventh Circuit judges who unanimously upheld his criminal ...

According to a federal appeals court ruling last week, observant Jewish condominium owners have no right under federal law to display mezuzot on their doorposts.

A federal appeals court has vacated the sanctions that a lower court had imposed against an attorney in Mexico for conspiring to fraudulently return a product liability case to U.S. courts after the litigation ...

"The discipline of committing one's thoughts to paper not only promotes thoughtful consideration but also creates a surer path of communication with the reviewing court." So observes Seventh Circuit Judge ...

The 7th Circuit, in a 2-1 opinion written by Frank Easterbrook, has held that an apartment which -- in the course of prohibiting all outside objects on doorways -- bars observant Jews from posting Mezuzot on ...

Joining three other federal appellate courts, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that cash balance pension plans do not violate federal age discrimination law.

July 11, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS DISAPPOINTED WITH FEDERAL APPEALS COURT RULING FINDING THAT FEDERAL FAIR HOUSING ACT DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST CONDO ASSOCIATION BANNING ...