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Seventh Circuit Requires a Defendant Seeking Removal To Establish the Plaintiffs’ Article III Standing

Collier v. SP Plus Corp., a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, presented the “unusual circumstance” where both the plaintiffs and the defendant argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing...more

Wisconsin’s Court of Appeals Holds That a Nonlawyer Personal Representative May Not Initiate an Appeal

It is not exactly a novel proposition of law in Wisconsin that a nonlawyer cannot represent a separate legal entity (as opposed to appearing pro se) in a Wisconsin court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court considered this issue over...more

Seventh Circuit Explains When an Award of Attorney’s Fees Is Final for Purposes of an Appeal

The law clerks of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit might be excused for thinking of the court’s recent decision in Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Co., No. 17-2080 (7th Cir. Feb. 9, 2018), as the one...more

Seventh Circuit Uses Rule 9(b) to Dismiss False Claims Act Case

The Seventh Circuit has been on quite a tear recently with cases involving the False Claims Act; we wrote about three of them, involving the federal assignment law, the worthless-services doctrine, and the public-disclosure...more

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