Seventh Circuit Roundup
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit covers three important states – Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin – and multiple major metro areas, including Chicago, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee. It handles a wide variety of cases and is home to a prominent and thought-provoking cast of judges, so there’s rarely a dull moment in CA7’s Dirksen Federal Building. Hosts Kian Hudson and Mark Crandley of Barnes & Thornburg track what’s going on in the Seventh Circuit, highlight interesting cases, and read between the lines of notable opinions.
Episodes
22 episodes
November 2025 Decisions Address Implied Rights of Action, Personal Jurisdiction, and Section 1983
This episode covers three important decisions that the Seventh Circuit issued in November 2025: Chicago Teachers Union v. Educators for Excellence (a case addressing whether there is a private cause of action to enforce the federal ban...
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54:27
Autumnal Decisions on Guns, Standing, Qualified Immunity, and the Takings Clause
As autumn settles in, the Seventh Circuit remains anything but quiet. In this episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup, hosts Kian Hudson, Mark Crandley, and Lara Langeneckert break down three decisions from late summer and early fall that e...
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Seventh Circuit Roundup: Mandates, Mine Claims and Motion Practice
In this month’s episode, the crew tackles three notable decisions from the Seventh Circuit.First up, Lara walks us through Lukaszczyk v. Cook County, a case involving a vaccine mandate, claims under Section 1983, and some...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:12:47
April 2025 Opinions on Insurance, International Arbitration — and Chicken!
The podcast returns with our monthly dose of Seventh Circuit opinions.First, Lara tackles a complex insurance coverage case with wide-ranging implications in Starstone Insurance SE v City of Chicago. The case star...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:01:48
Rapid-Fire Rulings: Seventh Circuit Issues Major Back-to-Back Decisions in March
This month’s podcast focuses on a trio of significant cases the Seventh Court handed down in mid-March within days of each other. Each of these cases has major ramifications for those in the Seventh Circuit.First, Kian takes on the Court...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:09:21
New Decisions on Section 1983 and Qualified Immunity (Plus: Who Decides When Litigation Conduct Waives Arbitration?)
In this month’s podcast, the trio discusses three new Seventh Circuit decisions. First, Kian takes a deep dive into a fractured en banc decision on an unusual qualified immunity issue. Next, Lara gets philosophical with a case that raises the q...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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55:06
Seventh Circuit Issues Critical Holdings on Criminal Conspiracy, Punitive Damages, and Jurisdiction
Kian, Lara and Mark take on a new batch of key Seventh Circuit cases in this month’s podcast. First, the three discuss the Court’s en banc decision in U.S. v. Page, in which the Court changed the standard for proving conspiracy to dist...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:12:55
Major FLSA Decisions About Multi-Plaintiff Actions & Commuting Time (Plus Fourth Amendment Rules for Pole Cameras!)
In this special episode, Mark and Kian welcome a third member to the podcast team – Lara Langeneckert, commercial litigator at Barnes & Thornburg and formerly of the Indiana Solicitor General’s Office and the Southern District of Indiana U....
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:00:13
Live Episode: Mark and Kian Discuss Four August Opinions With Students From the IU McKinney School of Law
In this special live episode, Mark and Kian are hosted by the Federalist Society chapter of the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. This episode is an appellate procedure extravaganza, with our hosts managing to cover fou...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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53:04
“Mootness Fees” in Federal Securities Litigation and Private Right of Actions To Enforce Federal Statutes Under Section 1983
In this month’s podcast, Kian and Mark address two cases dealing with two completely different but equally complex areas of federal law: securities litigation and Medicaid. In Alcarez v. Akorn, the Court examined the avenues of...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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51:03
Collateral Order Doctrine Meets Church Autonomy Doctrine and Takings Meets State Sovereign Immunity
Mark and Kian return to discuss two of the Seventh Circuit's March 2024 opinions.In Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute, a split 2-1 panel (Judge St. Eve writing and joined by Judge Hamilton, with Judge Brennan dissenting) refused...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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49:14
Discussing the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine, Claim Preclusion, and Lay Opinion Testimony
In this episode, Mark and Kian chat about two opinions the Seventh Circuit issued in February 2024.The first case, Chicago Joe’s Team Room v. Village of Broadview, is a long-running Section 1983 case brought by a would-be adult...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:03
Discerning State Law Under Erie & Defining “Claim” Under The False Claims Act
The two cases Mark and Kian discuss in this episode each raise a tricky but important question.The first, Green Plains Trade Group, LLC v. Archer Daniels Midland Co., addresses how federal courts should discern the content of s...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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43:33
Interview with Former Indiana Solicitor General Tom Fisher
In this month’s very special episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup, hosts Kian Hudson and Mark Crandley interview legendary Seventh Circuit litigator Tom Fisher. Tom recently concluded nearly two decades of service as Indiana’s solicitor general, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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44:48
International Discovery and Local Controversies
The eighth episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup examines two cases dealing with important federal procedural statutes. First, In Re Venequip reviewed the requirements for a party in a dispute obtaining discovery in federal court ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:13
Remedies and Marriage: Right to Injunction Constitutional Violations and Addressing Marital Privilege
In the seventh episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup, Kian and Mark address cases from very different areas of the law that offer some practical insights for those practicing in the Seventh Circuit.First, Kian discusses Finch v. Treto<...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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37:00
August Opinions Address Whether Paying Bail Is Speech and When Courts Can Decide Cases on State Law Grounds
In its sixth episode, Seventh Circuit Roundup covers two August opinions—Bail Project v. Indiana Department of Insurance and St. Augustine School v. Underly. The first case is a Free Speech Clause challenge to an Indiana l...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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54:21
Seventh Circuit Roundup: July Opinions Include Decisions on Intervention Standards and Constitutional Claims for Sexual Assault
The fifth episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup covers two July opinions—Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections and Hess v. Garcia. In Bost, the Democratic Party of Illinois tried to intervene to defend the va...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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56:52
June Opinions Address Religious Discrimination In Prisons and Discovery Against Federal Agencies
In the fourth episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup our team covers the religious-discrimination case, Emad v. Dodge County, and the third-party-discovery case, St. Vincent Medical Group v. U.S. Department of Justice. In Dodg...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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44:17
Decisions Issued in May Involve Applying “Heck Bar” to Section 1983 Claims and Imposing Class-Notice Costs on Defendants
The third episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup covers two significant decisions the Seventh Circuit issued in May — Courtney v. Butler and Bakov v. Consolidated World Travel. In the first case, the Seventh Circuit applie...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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53:56
April Cases Include Major Decisions on Religious Accommodations and Article III Standing
The second episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup covers three important Seventh Circuit decisions issued in April – Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corp., Pucillo v. National Credit Systems, and Indiana Right to Life v. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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54:27
Jurisdiction, ERISA, and Remands, Oh My! April Brings Complex Cases to 7th Circuit
The first episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup covers a couple of interesting cases in the Seventh Circuit – Hadzi-Tanovic v. Johnson and Hughes v. Northwestern. The former, a constitutional-rights case arising out of a state-co...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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