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Navajo Prisoner Entitled to Venison, Colored Bandana: 7th Cir.
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
The Free Exercise Clause lets practitioners of Santeria in Florida ritually slaughter chickens, and lets a Muslim inmate have a half-inch-long beard. Add David...
Bad Airport Interviews No Basis for Discrediting Asylum Seeker
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
A Mongolian business man will get a second chance at asylum after the Seventh Circuit found that his credibility was inappropriately denied based on poorly...
Sorry Senator, No Injury Here: Johnson's ACA Suit Tossed
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson's suit challenging Obamacare's changes to congressional health plans was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit for lack of standing on...
Smoking Gun in Text Message Antitrust Suit Not Smoking Enough
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
Remember the days before unlimited text messaging plans? Text messages seemed to cost an obscene amount of money. If you actually calculated the data cost, at...
Bad (and Good) News for Terror Victims: 7th Rules on al-Qaeda Funds
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
Insurance companies who lost billions after the September 11th terrorist attacks won't be able to recover that money from $6 million in seized terrorist...
Chicago Window Washers Exempt from Overtime, Says 7th Cir.
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
Are window washers exempt from overtime? They very well could be, the Seventh Circuit said in an opinion issued on April 1 (which is no joke, by the...