Christopher Keleher Speaks At Seminar Held By “Alliance For Impact” NGO
Today, I had the honor of presenting a seminar to the Alliance For Impact, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to respecting the rights of foreign based online merchants. Specifically, I addressed cross-border e-commerce legal concerns, and how Chinese sellers deal with federal court litigation in the United States. The international implications of Schedule A...
Another Schedule A Success
Yesterday, I convinced a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois to unfreeze a seller's Amazon account and vacate a TRO in a Schedule A lawsuit. My client, an online merchant on the Amazon platform, had its account frozen for two months. Judge John Kness heard oral arguments on the propriety...
Can an EEOC Decision Be Appealed?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a government agency whose purpose is to enforce federal laws against employment discrimination. The EEOC has the authority to investigate claims of workplace discrimination and make decisions that can substantially impact the rights of employees. Workers naturally want to know whether...
The Seventh Circuit As An Outlier
As noted in my last post, the Seventh Circuit recently issued its annual report for 2022. Along with the number of appellate filings for 2022, the annual report also details a slew of stats on other matters, including comparisons between the Seventh Circuit and the other federal appellate circuit courts. Two merit mention here....
Unpublished Appellate Opinions-A Tale of Two Circuits
It's an open secret that most federal appellate courts dispense with their cases via unpublished opinions. The numbers are in for 2022, and to be precise, 86% of federal appellate opinions were unpublished. This published-unpublished distinction is important because an unpublished decision is not precedential, and thus does not create circuit law....
Seventh Circuit Win on Appellate Sanctions
This week, an appellate opinion was issued by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Kinsella v. Baker Hughes. I represented the Appellant in this appeal of an arbitration ruling. The Appellee contended my client pursued a frivolous appeal and sought Rule 38 sanctions. While the Seventh Circuit ultimately rebuffed our position...
The Perils of Forfeiture
Federal appellate courts are loathe to address arguments not preserved in the district court. The Seventh Circuit is no different. That position was personified today in the Seventh Circuit's opinion in Sunny Handicraft v. Envision This!, No. 21-1579. Judge Frank Easterbrook, writing for the Court, refused to consider an issue the defendant...
Podcast Discussion on Law & Crime
I recently had the honor of being invited to speak on a podcast with Adam Klasfeld. As Mr. Klasfeld explains: On the latest episode of Law & Crime’s podcast, “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld,” appellate attorney Christopher Keleher, who also wrote the University of San Francisco Law Review article “The Repercussions of Anonymous...
Seventh Circuit Win
This week, I won a reversal in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The case, Bradley v. Village of University Park, concerns the constitutional issue of procedural due process. However, this appeal focused on whether the law of the case doctrine and mandate rule applied. This is the second time the case...
The SAFE-T Act, Stalled, For Now
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is an Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that reforms the criminal justice system. It represents a shift in the approach to policing, pretrial detention, bail, sentencing, and corrections. The law—a lightning rod in the debate over crime and punishment—was...