| 25-6146 |
William G. Roberson, IV v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment government-liability procedural-obstacles religious-coercion |
QP: Whether the Establishment Clause is violated when a pretrial detainee is compelled to attend a court hearing in a religious chapel under threat of… |
| 25-443 |
Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a policy… |
| 25-401 |
Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's property rights after the government has lawfully seized property, and whether the Due Process C… |
| 25-303 |
Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow an employer to be held liable for discrimination on the basis of disability where the employee has no p… |
| 25-238 |
Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Pending |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-rights individual-liberty second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons |
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles |
| 25A237 |
Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights-removal federal-jurisdiction pro-se-removal racial-discrimination remand-review section-1443 |
Whether a pro se litigant's notice of removal can satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) requirements without explicitly citing the statute when federal civil ri… |
| 25A88 |
Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1107 |
Jonathan Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-behavior overdetention |
Whether the Eighth Amendment provides the sort of explicit textual source of constitutional protection for 'overdetention' such that the Eighth Amendm… |
| 24-499 |
Nita A. v. A. A. |
Illinois |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the Illinois Domestic Violence Act violated Nita's First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by interfering with her parent-child relation… |
| 24-481 |
Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly deferred to a doctor's medical restrictions in determining ADA 'qualified individual' status, or whether a more … |
| 24-464 |
Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. Quintin Scott |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing circuit-conflict class-action incentive-award judicial-standing redressability |
Does a putative class representative have Article III standing solely to seek an 'incentive award' nowhere authorized by statute, rule, or historic pr… |
| 24-379 |
Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
citizenship-forfeiture civil-death cruel-and-unusual-clause eighth-amendment punishment-disability res-judicata |
Whether Illinois's punishment disability statutes without time limits violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Clause constituting a 'civil de… |
| 24A295 |
Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mendoza-martinez public-office time-limits |
Whether civil punishment statutes that permanently restrict an individual's right to hold public office without time limits violate the Eighth Amendme… |
| 24-5495 |
Madena Bishop v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights court-procedure judicial-misconduct pro-se-petition service-of-process |
Whether multiple legal issues can be raised in a pro se petition involving alleged procedural irregularities and constitutional violations in Cook Cou… |
| 23-6298 |
Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment |
whether-the-return-of-an-indictment-without-a-vote-by-the-grand-jury-violates-the-fifth-amendment-guarantee-of-indictment-by-a-grand-jury |
| 22-234 |
Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing |
Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule |
| 21-7464 |
Ioan Lela v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus irreparable-harm pre-trial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention |
Whether a pretrial detainee can obtain dismissal of pending state criminal charges in federal court pursuant to 28 USC § 2241 based on willful and unc… |
| 20-1814 |
Donnie Rudd v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
arrest-warrant criminal-complaint criminal-procedure prosecutorial-involvement right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court's decision in Rothgery v. Gillespie eliminates attachment of an individual's Sixth Amendment right to counsel prior to his appearanc… |
| 20A150 |
Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-990 |
Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees |
Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson abrogated or modified the standard for evaluating pretrial detainees' claims challenging their conditions of confineme… |
| 20-6010 |
Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care |
Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights |
| 20-450 |
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Dismissed |
administrative-law administrative-procedure homeland-security immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility notice-and-comment notice-and-comment-rulemaking public-charge standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether entities that are not subject to the public-charge ground of inadmissibility are proper parties to challenge the final rule |
| 19-8437 |
Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction |
Whether Wilson's warrantless arrest and detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 19A905 |
Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-704 |
Matthew D. Wilson, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use common-use-test due-process firearms-regulation heller heller-precedent local-government-restriction second-amendment self-defense standing takings |
Whether the Second Amendment allows a local government to prohibit law-abiding residents from possessing and protecting themselves with a class of rif… |
| 18-1203 |
Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention |
Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings |
| 18-386 |
Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings |
Whether the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction is controlled by this Court's decisions upholdin… |