Taibu Grant appeals the District Court s denial of the habeas petition he filed under 28 U.S.C. 2254. We granted a certificate of appealability to allow Grant to appeal the District Court s rejection of his claim of prosecutorial misconduct without holding an evidentiary hearing and his claim...   MORE>>

Moldovan citizens Victor Sirbu and his wife Iulia Prodan applied for asylum in the United States, as well as for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Sirbu fears persecution by the Moldovan government based on his active and vocal opposition to the Communist Pa...   MORE>>

On April 9, 2004, federal agents and local police executed a search warrant at defendant Collet Williams residence and found roughly five kilograms of marijuana, a handgun, and several scales. Williams moved to suppress the fruits of this search before trial. Relying on Franks v. Delaware, 438 U....   MORE>>

The State and County plaintiffs sued the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), and the Federal Housing and Finance Agency in an effort to collect state and local real estate transfer taxes that plaintiffs claim are owed for real...   MORE>>

Under Illinois law, a candidate for the state legislature seeking placement on the general election ballot without having participated in a primary (or having replaced a candidate who did) must submit a nominating petition signed by a certain number of eligible voters. In July 2012, the Chicago Boar...   MORE>>

From 1996 to 2003, Candace Harbaugh worked on and off for the Chicago Public Schools as a substitute music teacher. Beginning in August 2003, she was hired as a full-time basis substitute, and the following year she was appointed to a fulltime probationary tenure-track teaching position. In th...   MORE>>

This is a crack cocaine case brought by two currently incarcerated defendants seeking retroactive relief from racially discriminatory mandatory minimum sentences imposed on them in 2005. The Fair Sentencing Act was passed in August 2010 to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing laws th...   MORE>>

Elgin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center ( Elgin ) seeks review of a final decision of the Department of Health and Human Services ( DHHS ) upholding a ruling of an administrative law judge ( ALJ ) affirming a determination by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) that...   MORE>>

In the present case, Lamont Wilson ("Appellant" or "Wilson") filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") against his employer, Dollar General Corporation ("Appellee" or "Dollar General"). Wilson alleged Dollar General failed to provide a reasonable acco...   MORE>>

In this appeal, we consider the district court s summary judgment holding that the plaintiffs, Dan Scoggins, Debbie Scoggins, and their son Jacob Scoggins (collectively, the plaintiffs), were not entitled under the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, 42 U.S.C. 3601 through 3631 (the FHAA), t...   MORE>>