Federal appeals court dismisses college newspaper censorship suit
A federal appeals court in Chicago has thrown out a lawsuit filed by student journalists at Governors State University who claimed that the Dean of Student Affair's demand to review their newspaper before it went to press...
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Chicago-based Sidley Austin Brown & Wood , for alleged discrimination against the firm's older lawyers. The suit, which could cost the firm...
Ruling on sale of Ten Commandments monument parkland [7th Circuit]
Mercier et al. v. Fraternal Order of Eagles, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, January 3, 2005 [ruling that the sale to a private organization of land containing a Ten Commandments monument in a La Crosse Wisconsin public...
Overturning a lower court ruling, the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a split decision Monday that the sale to a private organization of land containing a Ten Commandments monument in a La Crosse Wisconsin public park...
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, October 15, 2004 [affirming a lower court's dismissal of claims by working mothers who contended that voting in person is a hardship and that the US Constitution requires Illinois to...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 28, 2004 . Read the opinion here . Excerpt: We deal here with a novel First...
First Amendment in adult entertainment context ruling [7th Circuit]
Ben's Bar v. Village of Somerset, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, January 17, 2003 [ruling that a local Wisconsin liquor ordinance prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol in adult entertainment establishments did not violate the...
