In addition to Judge Easterbrook, Seventh Circuit chief judge Diane Wood has also kindly sent responses to the questions I posed yesterday about Seventh Circuit motions panels. I copy below my ...

Sykes, who joined the Seventh Circuit in 2004 after serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, was reportedly on President ...

Chief Judge Diane Wood, who was highly critical of Dassey’s interrogation ... (Parentheses in original.) The Seventh Circuit’s chief judge said Dassey’s confession was clearly coerced and should not ...

The Williams opinion was reversed by the Seventh Circuit, sitting as a whole, by an 8 to 3 vote. For this case, Judge Wood authored an opinion allowing for the novel application of federal anti ...

Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Sykes plans to step down from active service on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

Seventh Circuit chief judge Diane Wood wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by Judge Ilana Rovner. Judge Amy Coney Barrett penned a powerful dissent (which runs from pages 42 to 82 of the ...

Diane Sykes, chief judge of the 7th Circuit Appeals Court and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, announced yesterday she is moving to senior status.