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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.
Seventh Circuit Roundup
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 Dodge County, a Muslim inmate alleged that Wisconsin prison officials violated the Free Exercise Clause and Equal Protection Clause by allowing Christian inmates to engage in certain forms of prayer while prohibiting him (and other Muslims) from doing the same. The Seventh Circuit had “no trouble concluding [the inmate’s] claims fall in the heartland of these constitutional protections” and reversed the grant of qualified immunity. And in St. Vincent, the Seventh Circuit held that under the Department of Justice’s “Touhy” regulations, federal law enforcement agencies have wide discretion to decline to give testimony in state court litigation. Our team explains why these decisions are interesting, important, and worth considering.
