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Peoria Public Radio
February 28, 2018
There are signs key portions of the corruption case against former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock may be at risk of unraveling. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago is currently considering a question on which the outcome of the Illinois Republican's case may rest. It's whether prosecutors basedÃâà...
WRTV Indianapolis
February 28, 2018
He was initially sentenced to death, but a three-judge panel from the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that he was entitled to a new penalty phase of his trial, meaning the case would go back to Madison Circuit Court for sentencing. "Unnecessarily retrying even the penalty phase of a capital caseÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 27, 2018
US Court Asked to Reinstate Death Sentence in Double Slaying. The Indiana attorney ... The filing asks the full U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to review a January decision from a three-judge panel that found Frederick Baer had ineffective legal counsel during his trial. The panel sent the caseÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 19, 2018
And earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed that it will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students ... But Galanter — and other advocates — contend that courts have already made that determination, including a ruling last May by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court ofÃâà...
Appleton Post Crescent
February 19, 2018
Dassey's attorneys, Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin of the Center for Wrongful Convictions of Youth in Illinois, vowed in December to appeal the case to the Supreme Court after U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Dassey's conviction. The Supreme Court only accepts a small percentage ofÃâà...
Lexology
February 15, 2018
Anka Miscevic had a history of mental illness. While her husband Zelkjo was sleeping, she stabbed him in the chest and hit him over the head with a baseball bat, killing him. An Illinois state court found Anka not guilty by reason of insanity. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the first federalÃâà...
Daily Northwestern
February 15, 2018
Two graduates and a professor from Pritzker School of Law have been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, potentially joining three other Northwestern alumni serving on the court. The White House announced in a Monday news release the nominations of U.S. DistrictÃâà...
WBAY
February 14, 2018
There's only one court higher that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals: the United States Supreme Court. Drizin says his team will be filing a brief "in a few days." He's assembled a team that includes experienced Supreme Court litigators. "The decision boils down to: Do we argue the case before the U.S.Ãâà...
The State Journal-Register
December 31, 1999
A panel of three appeals court judges found Friday that while a group home operator and the U.S. Department of Justice sue the city of Springfield for allegedly ... By appealing the district court's injunction against the eviction, the city asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to weigh in on how the cityÃâà...
