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   Federal Courts - 7th Circuit Court of Appeals - February 22, 2006

  
Adusumilli v. Palliative Care Ctr. & Hospice of the N. Shore, No. 05-1386, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: District court did not abuse its discretion in denying former employee's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motions for reconsideration of grant of summary judgment and award of sanctions to former employer because employee's attack on merits of order granting summary judgment was legal question that was not proper ground for relief under R. 60(b).

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Andreola v. Wisconsin, No. 05-1931, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: First Amendment did not compel state to provide inmate with meals prepared according to his specifications while litigation continued because state was providing him with diet that would be accepted as kosher by most Jews; First Amendment did not require prisons to accommodate every element of each inmate's faith.

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Brown v. United States, No. 05-3844, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Dembele v. Gonzales, No. 05-2013, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Court dismissed alien's petition for review because alien did not report for removal as directed, making her a fugitive, and under the fugitive-disentitlement doctrine, which applied to immigration cases, those who avoid lawful custody forfeit judicial review.

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Hicklin Eng'g, L.C. v. Bartell, Nos. 05-2282 & 05-2302, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Because a reasonable jury could have inferred that the engineer implicitly agreed to use the firm's data for its benefit rather than his own, summary judgment on the firm's claims under Wis. Stat. § 134.90 was reversed. Firms' sanction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 for refusing to admit that the engineer worked as an independent contractor was proper.

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Knudsen v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., No. 05-8037, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Pannell v. Davis, No. 05-1550, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Rising-Moore v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., No. 05-1976, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Rud v. Liberty Life Assur. Co., No. 04-3655, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment in favor of insurer in an ERISA action was affirmed; insurer was a fiduciary under ERISA, standard of review was arbitrary and capricious, denial of further disability benefits to an employee was not arbitrary or capricious, and employee failed to show conflict of interest that would support plenary review of insurer's decision.

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United States v. Dunkin, No. 05-1677, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, February 22, 2006, Decided
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Overview: In prosecution for two bank robberies, district court should not have allowed defendant's defense of coercion, but once defense was allowed, government had right to present evidence of earlier robbery under Fed. R. Evid. 403 because probative value of earlier robbery in relation to defense was considerable and prejudice was slight.

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