| 25-775 |
Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove… |
| 25-673 |
Bradley Andrew Herbst v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-statute statute-of-limitations |
1. While this matter does require review, the
main question of "should a statute of limitations be
allowed" when addressing an individual's constituti… |
| 25-6056 |
Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions |
1. Jurisdiction after appeal. Whether a district court may impose a punitive monetary sanction sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of … |
| 25-5727 |
Aaron Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
arrest-warrant constitutional-violation due-process investigative-alert law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause |
Does the city of Chicago, Illinois violate the Constitution by using an investigative alert opposed to a proper warrant when there is no exigent circu… |
| 25A148 |
Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest |
Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo… |
| 24-7388 |
Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct |
Whether fabricated criminal arrest records created through police misconduct violate a defendant's constitutional rights to due process and fair adjud… |
| 22-1011 |
Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing |
Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates? |
| 22-972 |
Jacqueline A. Watkins v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
adverse-employment-action cat's-paw cat's-paw-theory causation-standard civil-rights-act-of-1964 employment employment-discrimination mixed-motive racial-discrimination sex-discrimination title-vii |
Whether an employer can be liable for racial and sex discrimination under Title VII based on a supervisor's alleged bias |
| 22A708 |
Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-6679 |
Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings |
Whether the Aveand and the Ut Cieecit decisions conflict with the Circuit decision which dismissed my case? |
| 22-603 |
Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure |
Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-461 |
Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy |
Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employme… |
| 22-268 |
City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment |
Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab… |
| 22A32 |
City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-898 |
Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure |
May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv… |
| 21-700 |
Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
GVR |
42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition |
Does a claim for wrongful pre-trial detention accrue upon favorable termination or release on bail? |
| 21-414 |
First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 |
Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa… |
| 20-1259 |
Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause |
Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims |
| 20-1214 |
Fred J. Eychaner v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
blight due-process eminent-domain future-blight kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london pretext property-rights public-use public-use-clause takings takings-clause |
Is the possibility of future blight a permissible basis for a government to take property in an unblighted area and give it to a private party for pri… |
| 20-673 |
Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration … |
| 19-7121 |
Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split |
Whether the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions in the City of Chicago violates due-process |
| 19-398 |
LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search |
Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r… |
| 19-357 |
City of Chicago, Illinois v. Robbin L. Fulton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Judgment Issued |
11-usc-362 affirmative-obligation automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure debtor-trustee property-retention property-rights |
Whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligation under … |
| 19A58 |
LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-1516 |
Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hill v. Colorado in light of Reed v. Town of Gilbert and McCullen v. Coakley |
| 18A1251 |
City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. v. Maurice Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
accrual-of-claim false-arrest fourth-amendment legal-process qualified-immunity wrongful-detention |
Whether a Fourth Amendment claim for wrongful pretrial detention accrues when the detention ends or at a different point in time |
| 19A1029 |
City of Chicago, Illinois v. Robbin L. Fulton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
None |
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