Employment Rulings in the Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit covers the federal courts in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The rulings below come from the circuit's court of appeals and the federal trial courts within it.
Of the 1,243 published rulings we track here (1975–2026), the breakdowns below show how they were decided. They describe published opinions only — not the odds of any particular situation.
How These Rulings Ended
Of the 1,243 published rulings we track in the Seventh Circuit.
What Happens at Each Stage
A workplace lawsuit moves through stages, and a ruling can end it at any of them. Here is where the 1,238 rulings we could classify by stage were decided.
A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
Of the 307 summary-judgment rulings here, 203 ended the case in the employer’s favor and 104 let the worker’s claims continue.
An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
A judge or jury heard the evidence and reached a decision. Relatively few disputes get this far.
The two sides resolved the dispute by agreement, sometimes with court approval. Most settlements are private and never show up in published opinions.
A decision entered because one side did not respond to the case at all.
Procedural decisions and orders that do not fit the main stages above.
Top Claim Types
Top Employers
- Union Pacific Railroad Company45
- Abbott Laboratories28
- Board of Education of the City of Chicago12
- Union Pacific Railroad11
- United Airlines, Inc.10
- Chicago Transit Authority9
States in This Circuit
Browse rulings from courts in each state the Seventh Circuit covers.
Recent Rulings in the Seventh Circuit
Sheehy Enterprizes, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
Fleszar
Boeing Co. v. International Union of United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers
Gessling
Green
Burns
Loparex LLC v. National Labor Relations Board
NLRB v. Loparex LLC
Jennings v. Sallie Mae, Inc.
Hughes v. United Air Lines, Inc.
Anthony Collins v. Heritage Wine Cellars Ltd.
United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. ABM Janitorial-Midwest, Inc.
Bloch v. Frischholz
Lynne Bloch v. Edward Frischholtz
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. C.G. Schmidt, Inc.
Jackson v. Verizon Wireless
Kevin Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plast
Long
Spivey
George Nemsky v. International Union of Operati
Adams
Addis
Cockroft
Local 65-B, Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
Mayden
John Castronovo v. National Union Fire Insurance
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Management Hospitality of Racine, Inc.
Kauspadas
Edmundas Kauspadas v. Eric Holder, Jr.
GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund v. Goldfarb Corp.
GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund v. Goldfarb Corporation
Adams
Adams
Adams
New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board
Adams
Adams
Kevin Adams v. Retail Ventures, Incorporated
Richardson v. Astellas U.S. LLC Employee Benefit Plan
Antonetti
Scott Antonetti v. Abbott Laboratories
Ward
International Union of Operati v. Joseph Ward
Green
A. Bauer Mechanical, Inc. v. Joint Arbitration Board of the Plumbing Contractors' Ass'n & Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Union 130
Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. v. International Unions of Painters & Allied Trades, Local 770
Clear Channel Outdoor v. International Unions of Painte
Ekstrand
Shales
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Lee's Log Cabin, Inc.
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These figures summarize publicly available published court opinions only. Published opinions over-represent summary-judgment rulings (decisions made without a trial) and appeals, because those are the stages where judges most often write formal opinions. Most workplace disputes settle privately and never appear here at all. A ruling’s outcome reflects many case-specific factors and is not a prediction for any other situation. Read more about how we source and classify rulings.
Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The classification of outcomes and case stages is based on automated analysis and may not reflect the full scope of each case.