U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
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Appeals panel further cuts punitive damages in health care software trade secrets court fight
Federal jury in Wisconsin said Tata took Epic Systems information to market its own product, but that doesn't mean Tata can be made to pay $280 million in punitive damages. -
Appeals panel: Three Wisconsin power providers have skin in the game to fight environmental suit to stop transmission lines project
A Chicago federal appeals court says Wisconsin power companies have too much at stake to block them from fighting environmental activists' lawsuit to block a transmission lines project. -
Appeals court: Clergy housing allowance tax exemption rules are constitutional
A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court ruling that said tax-free housing allowances for clergy breached the separation between church and state, finding the long history of such exemptions in the United States allows churches, not government, to properly "advance religion." -
Appeals panel: Sticky questions remain over patent for tech used to produce key ingredient for breeding dairy cows
A federal appeals panel has weighed in on a sticky case that centers on the question of who can corral the market for "sexed" bull semen, and whether a would-be competitor violated a confidentiality agreement in attempting to use trade secrets to horn in on the game of producing dairy cows. -
Appeals panel: $10M arbitrator’s class award invalid; Arbitration should have involved 1, not 175 employees
A Chicago federal appellate court has struck down a $10 million arbitration award to loan officers in a class action against Waterstone Mortgage, which alleged the company shorted officers on overtime pay, saying arbitration should only have involved the plaintiff, not another 174 employees who joined the action. -
Federal appeals court tosses antitrust injunction that goes too far in car dealer software suit
A Chicago federal appeals panel has scrapped an injunction won by a Wisconsin business against a Hoffman Estates-based provider of software to car dealers, with the court saying the injunction improperly distorts the marketplace. -
Seventh Circuit: Patent law can't be used to press asbestos exposure liability claims
A federal appeals panel in Chicago has upheld lower courts’ dismissal of several asbestos exposure lawsuits brought against door maker Weyerhaeuser Company and Owens-Illinois Inc., saying their dispute with Weyerhauser should be handled under Wisconsin’s workers compensation law, and their claims against Owens-Illinois don’t belong in court at all. -
Ruling in Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit could provide pathway for reform in Illinois
A legal fight over the way legislative districts are drawn in Wisconsin could have implications for Illinois voters who have called for similar reform.