Category: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Court revives suit over ban on colored underwear in jail

A federal appeals court says female inmates can sue a county jail in northwest Illinois for prohibiting them from wearing colored underwear. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported Friday the Rock Island County Jail barred colored undergarments on grounds the color could be extracted to make tattoos.

Trump finishes Supreme Court interviews

President Donald Trump is done interviewing candidates to fill the opening on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official told CNN Wednesday. Trump’s four finalists, the official said, are Neil Gorsuch, who sits on the federal appears court in Denver; William H. Pryor Jr., who sits on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; Diane Sykes, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

Federal judge rules on Crown Hill North Woods case

Jane Magnus-Stinson, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, has denied the request from the Indiana Forest Alliance and plaintiffs to halt the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ columbaria project at Crown Hill Cemetery’s North Woods.

Backpage.com shuts down – adult’ ads after Senate committee report

The owners of Backpage.com on Monday shut down the “adult” section on the online classified advertising site, just hours after a U.S. Senate committee released a report that found the site knowingly aided users in posting ads for prostitution and child sex trafficking, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. The 53-page report issued Monday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is the most scathing probe yet of the controversial online marketplace built by the founders of the Village Voice.

Seventh Circuit Allows FCA Claim Based on Inferences of Fraud to…

In United States ex rel. Presser v. Acacia Mental Health Clinic, LLC , 836 F.3d 770 , the Seventh Circuit addressed Rule 9 ‘s application to a False Claims Act complaint, elaborating on when it considers a relator’s allegations sufficiently particular to meet Rule 9 ‘s heightened pleading standard when a relator does not have access to the particular claims being submitted to the government for payment.

Milwaukee man asks 7th Circuit to review “stingray,” secret cell phone ruling

A dissenting opinion by a federal appeals court judge on police use of secret cellphone tracking technology has convinced a Milwaukee man to take his case a step further. The Milwaukee Journal reports that attorneys for Damian Patrick filed a petition this week asking for a rehearing in front of the full U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, following a split decision in November by the court’s three-judge panel.

Prosecutors: ‘Making a Murderer’ inmate’s confession legal

A Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” has no basis for his claims that his confession wasn’t voluntary and shouldn’t be released from prison as a judge has ordered, state attorneys argued in a court filing. Brendan Dassey, now 27, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in the death of photographer Teresa Halbach two years earlier.