October 09, 2020
During her three-year tenure as a Seventh Circuit judge, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has shown a rigorously by-the-books approach to medical malpractice and personal injury cases, including on liability issues involving the use of excessive force by police that may one day come before the high court.
January 03, 2020
A Seventh Circuit panel refused Friday to revisit its decision that a kidney transplant patient's $31.2 million verdict against a federally funded clinic should be largely affirmed.
November 08, 2019
The Seventh Circuit has largely affirmed a $31 million bench verdict in a suit accusing a federally funded clinic of causing a patient's kidney failure, but ordered further proceedings to determine whether the patient was partially to blame.
September 11, 2019
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday questioned whether a trial judge used the right method to come up with part of a $31 million damages award after a bench trial in which a federally funded clinic was held liable for causing a man's kidney failure.
May 06, 2019
An Illinois federal judge did not use an improper methodology to formulate a portion of the $31.2 million award she ordered against a federally funded clinic accused of causing a man's kidney failure, the man has told the Seventh Circuit.
February 22, 2019
The federal government asked the Seventh Circuit on Thursday to vacate or reduce a $31 million bench verdict in a suit accusing a federally funded clinic of causing a patient's kidney failure, saying the nature of the patient's injuries didn't justify the "extraordinarily high" award.