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Chicago’s Tow Regime Gets Green Light from Seventh Circuit
By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled on a question Chicago drivers have been asking for years: can the city really take your car, sell it, and keep...
Time on His Side? Seventh Circuit Court Gives Qualified Immunity To Workers Who Failed To Reduce Incarceration
By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
If a prison is aware of a sentencing error involving a prisoner but chooses not to rectify it, are they liable? Not always, according to the Seventh Circuit...
Federal Courts Call Out Wisconsin for Allowing a 'Travesty of Justice'
By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Last updated on
Robert Pope's story is one of injustice and an uphill battle for his freedom. Convicted of murder decades ago and behind bars ever since, Pope was denied a...
Court: 'Selective' Abortions Are Unconstitutional
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
For the second time in a week, a federal appeals court has struck down an abortion law as unconstitutional. In the latest ruling, the U.S. Seventh Circuit...
Court: Village Can't Confer 'Right-To-Work' Law
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
A local municipality can't confer a right to work on employees who opt not to join unions, a federal appeals court said. In International Union of Operating...
Madigan v. Levin: Dismissed As Improvidently Granted
By Gabriella Khorasanee, JD | Last updated on
We called it. What probably will be one of many upsets this Supreme Court term has happened: the writ of certiorari for Madigan v. Levin was dismissed as...
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