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

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.

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 ...

Sykes, 67, is among the federal judges who have fed a significant number of their law clerks to U.S. Supreme Court clerkships since 2019. Trump appointed four judges to the Seventh Circuit in his ...

A doctor’s bid to resolve claims he violated a Texas anti-abortion law in a Chicago federal court hinges on whether he can ...

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

There’s no limit to the creativity of plaintiffs’ attorneys in finding causes of action. Example: a 1980s law focused on VHS ...

Federal and circuit courts have been split on the issue of whether satisfying CAFA requirements negates the requirements of the MMWA. Cummings found the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh ...

The 7th Circuit had upheld the conviction on the counts of lying to regulators, and Thompson’s attorneys and federal prosecutors in Chicago presented their arguments to the Supreme Court earlier ...