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The Seventh Circuit revived a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee's malpractice lawsuit against the agency, which the court said gave him the "runaround," finding he is allowed to pursue federal claims of poor medical care even after the U.S. Department of Labor denied his initial claim that his injuries were caused by a workplace accident.

Northern District of California Validates SEC’s “Shadow Trading” Theory of Insider Trading Liability; Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Stockholder Derivative Suit Against Boeing...

2021 saw several important milestones in the biosimilars space, including the much anticipated first interchangeable designations by FDA and the approval of the first ophthalmology...

Arguing against mandatory vaccinations using human rights as a point of reference has been largely divisive and disingenuous. Not all arguments hold water. Does our Constitution, read properly, allow anyone as a right to go into a crowded lecture hall or workplace unmasked, unvaccinated, untest...

Downtown Chicago. (Photo via Jürgen Polle/Pixabay) CHICAGO (CN) — A set of decades-old consent decrees aimed at ending patronage in Illinois government will stay in place for now, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday. The so-called Shakman decrees from 1972 and 1991 are still needed to oversee hiring practices, at least when it comes to the Cook County Clerk’s Office, according to the Seventh Circuit. However, the panel warned that the decrees had been in place for far too long. “Permit...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) CHICAGO (CN) — The State of Indiana was free to permit the operator of its toll road to increase fees on heavy vehicles, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Tuesday. The unanimous three-judge panel issued a short 6-page ruling, finding that a toll road fee increase that specifically targeted heavy vehicles did not run afoul of commerce laws. “The Constitution does not establish the federal judiciary as a regulatory commission, after the fashion of utility regulators that...

Ralph K. Winter Jr., a top conservative judicial mind, dies at 85 By Clay Risen New York Times,Updated December 19, 2020, 5:53 p.m. Email to a Friend Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. donning his judicial robe at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., on Jan. 5, 1982, after being sworn in as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.JOYCE DOPKEEN/NYT Ralph K. Winter Jr., a conservative legal scholar whose work as a professor at Yale Law School and later as an appellate court judge cha...