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| Alexander v. United States, No. 06-1915,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: An inmate's petition under 28 U.S.C.S. § 2255 was properly dismissed because inmate failed to prove that his counsel's refusal to let inmate testify prejudiced the inmate. Even if the inmate had testified, the jury would have convicted him still based on the testimony of an undercover agent and co-defendant and the inmate's diminished credibility.
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| Evans v. United States Postal Serv., No. 06-2303,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Employee's action alleging he was improperly fired in violation of CBA was properly dismissed because he was not dissatisfied with union's handling of arbitration and could not convert hybrid suit to straightforward claim under § 301 of LMRA by naming employer as defendant, so he had to abide by arbitral body's decision to uphold his termination.
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| Guest v. McCann, No. 04-3736,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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| Jacobs v. Frank, No. 06-3478,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: In an inmate's § 1983 action alleging that he did not receive adequate food and his access to legal materials was impeded, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections was entitled to summary judgment because the inmate submitted no sworn statement or complaint to support his allegations and his current weight was appropriate for his height.
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| Jogi v. Voges, No. 01-1657,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Because the foreign national was complaining about police action, under color of state law, that violated a right secured to him by a federal law (in particular, Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Apr. 24, 1963, 21 U.S.T. 77, 596 U.N.T.S. 261), 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983 provided a vehicle for the alien's claim.
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| Jones v. Drew, No. 06-2049,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Prison officials and medical personnel were entitled to summary judgment in a prisoner's § 1983 action regarding the conservative treatment for the prisoner's bunions because the prison officials reasonably relied on the medical experts' opinions and the conservative treatment was acceptable treatment and did not violate the Eighth Amendment.
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| Mayer v. Monroe County Cmty. Sch. Corp., No. 06-1993,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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| Miller v. Fisher, No. 05-2024,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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Overview: District court erred in dismissing a prisoner's complaint because it adequately alleged a claim under the Eighth Amendment that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the prisoner's safety when they allowed another inmate to be housed adjacent to the prisoner after they became aware that the other inmate had threatened the prisoner.
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| Muzikowski v. Paramount Pictures Corp., Nos. 05-3004 & 05-3005,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 12, 2007, Decided
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