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Seventh Circuit Roundup
Welcome to Kaplan & Grady’s Seventh Circuit Roundup. On a rolling basis, we review prisoner-related cases from the Seventh Circuit and publish summaries on this page. Please sign up to receive an email when we add case summaries to this page.
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In Munson v. Newbold, the court (Sykes/Bauer/Rovner, with Sykes writing) affirmed summary judgment against a prison who raised an Eighth Amendment claim...
In Williams v. Rajoli, the court (Sykes/Easterbrook/Brennan, with Sykes writing) affirmed summary judgment against a prisoner for failing to exhaust his...
In Stockton v. Milwaukee County, the court (Scudder/St. Eve/Kirsch, with St. Eve writing) partially reversed and partially affirmed summary judgment against...
In Koch v. Village of Hartland, the court (St. Eve/Kirsch/Jackson-Akiwumi, with St. Eve writing and Kirsch concurring) addresses the application of laws...
In Stewardson v. Biggs, the court (Ripple/Rovner/Jacson-Akiwumi, with Jackson-Akiwumi writing) dismissed a qualified immunity appeal for lack of jurisdiction....
In Watts v. Kidman, the court (Easterbrook/Wood/Scudder, with Scudder writing) holds that a district court may consider the relative strength of the plaintiff’s...
In Jump v. Village of Shorewood, the court (Ripple/Scudder/Kirsch, with Judge Kirsch writing and Ripple dissenting) affirmed summary judgment against the...
In Miles v. Anton, the court (Easterbrook/Wood/Brennan, with Wood writing) reverses summary judgment against a prisoner for failure to exhaust the formal...
In Gonzalez v. McHenry County, the court (Manion/Hamilton/Brennan, with Manion writing) affirmed summary judgment against the estate of a man who was detained...
In Lane v. Person, the court (Brennan/Scudder/Kirsch, per curiam) reduces the judgment of costs against Lane, finding that one of the charges—a $2,750...
In Doxtator v. O’Brien, the court (Sykes/Flaum, with Flaum writing) affirmed summary judgment against the estate of a man who died after being shot by...
In Thomas v. Dart, the court (Manion/Jackson-Akiwumi, with Manion writing) affirmed the denial of a motion for leave to amend the plaintiff’s complaint...
The Court (Easterbrook/St. Eve/Jackson-Akiwumi, with St. Eve writing and Jackson concurring) affirmed SJ against a prisoner with appendicitis who alleged...
The Court (Rovner/St. Eve/Jackson-Akiwumi, with St. Eve writing) held that the 4th Amendment does not require a person to be given a bail hearing within...
The Court (Sykes/Hamilton/St. Eve, with Sykes writing) affirmed denial of a PI to stop enforcement of lifetime GPS monitoring of folks convicted of sex...
The Court (Rovner/Hamilton/St. Eve, with Hamilton writing) affirmed denial of a third party’s motion to intervene in a case as untimely. The case...
The Court (Hamilton/Scudder/Kirsch, per curiam) affirmed the dismissal of all pending cases and filing bar for a prisoner who the district judge found...
The Court (Manion/Rovner/St. Eve, with Rovner writing) affirmed a grant of a Rule 23(b)(3) class action better known as the “Orange Crush”...
The Court (Sykes/Easterbrook/Rovner, with Sykes writing and Rovner dissenting) affirms SJ against a prisoner for his claims about his treatment while in...
The Court (Rovner/Brennan/St. Eve, with Brennan writing) affirmed SJ against a prisoner for a failure to exhaust. The opinion doesn’t tread new ground,...
The Court (Brennan/Scudder/St. Eve, with Scudder writing) reversed SJ against a prisoner on a retaliation claim. The Court nicely lays out the elements...
The Court (Kanne/Rovner/Wood, with Wood writing) holds that Kingsley‘s objective reasonableness standard applies to failure-to-protect claims brought...
The Court (Ripple/Hamilton/Scudder, with Ripple writing and Hamilton concurring) affirms SJ against a prisoner with medical care claims against Wexford,...
The Court (Kanne/Brennan/Kirsch, with Kanne writing) reversed the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit based on a finding of fraud. The Court...
The Court (Sykes/Hamilton/St. Eve, per curiam) reversed SJ against a prisoner for a failure to exhaust. The BOP requires grievances to be filed on a particular...
The Court (Easterbrook/Scudder/St. Eve, with Scudder writing) reversed dismissal of a prisoner’s complaint with prejudice during the 1915A screening....
