Diane Sykes, chief judge of the 7th Circuit Appeals Court, is moving to semi-retirement after 33 years on the bench, opening ...

Four other federal appeals court seats are open as a result of ... Supreme Court when Bush nominated her to serve on the 7th Circuit in 2003. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate the next year ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers from requiring employee medical examinations absent business necessity. The ADA provides ...

The purgatory Illinois gun rights groups say gun owners have been in with a case challenging the state’s gun ban may be ...

The defendants in a federal lawsuit, filed by a former deputy for the Waupaca County Sheriff’s Department, are asking the ...

U.S. District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston found part of the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act unconstitutional for compelling speech.

In Retzios v. Epic Systems Corp., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals considered an appeal brought by the plaintiff, a former employee of Epic, ...

Seventh Circuit judges on Tuesday wrestled with what Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes called “an unusual use” of a procedural ...

Senior status is semi-retirement, which allows federal judges to continue ... respected member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit for decades," Tobias said.