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   Federal Courts - 7th Circuit Court of Appeals - March 15, 2007

  
Dunmire v. Schneider, No. 06-1254, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: District court properly dismissed an investor's action against a supervisory broker at a brokerage firm because the investor had an agreement with the firm to arbitrate rather than litigate and the supervisory broker was covered by the agreement as he dealt with the investor on behalf of the firm.

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Fifth Third Bank v. Edgar County Bank & Trust, No. 06-3238, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: The evidence supported a bankruptcy court's ruling that debtor in possession's officers acted in both personal and corporate capacities when they signed mortgage instrument. Mortgage instrument created valid and effective mortgage under Ind. Code § 32-21-2-3. Debtor could not take superior interest in mortgaged property under 11 U.S.C.S. § 544(a).

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Miller v. Martin, No. 05-3978, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: The decision denying an inmate's petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.S. § 2254 was reversed because the state appellate court unreasonably concluded that strategy justified counsel's refusal to participate; counsel's total dereliction at sentencing invited application of the Cronic standard rather than the Strickland standard.

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Mungongo v. Gonzales, No. 06-1635, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying alien's motion to reconsider denial of her motion to reopen because alien did not present additional legal arguments, change of law, or argument that was overlooked by BIA in denying her motion to reopen, and new evidence regarding HIV status of alien's husband could not be submitted on reconsideration.

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Phason v. Meridian Rail Corp., No. 06-2842, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Handshake deal was not a sale of a business, and the transaction did not close until after the employer had severed all ties to the former workers; because of the delay, an employment termination under 29 U.S.C.S. § 2101 had occurred, and the case was remanded with instructions to award the workers a remedy appropriate under § 2104(a).

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Terezov v. Gonzales, No. 06-2101, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: The BIA's refusal to set aside an order of removal in absentia pursuant to 8 U.S.C.S. § 1229a(b)(5)(A) was an abuse of discretion when the alien's return receipts for change of address forms and documents he received about his work authorization application showed that the DHS failed to send the notice to appear to the alien's most recent address.

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Tricontinental Indus. v. Pricewaterhousecoopers, LLP, No. 05-4322, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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United States v. Luster, No. 05-4312, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2007, Decided
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Overview: District court properly applied firearms sentencing enhancement to defendant under USSG §§ 2D1.1(b)(1) and 1B1.3(a)(1)(B) for possession of firearms by his coconspirators because defendant reasonably could have foreseen that codefendant and primary distribution agent possessed firearms in furtherance of their large cocaine distribution enterprise.

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