Seventh Circuit Roundup: June Opinions Address Religious Discrimination In Prisons and Discovery Against Federal Agencies

In the fourth episode of Seventh Circuit Roundup our team covers the religious-discrimination case, Emad v. Dodge County, and the third-party-discovery case, St. Vincent Medical Group v. U.S. Department of Justice.

In Dodge County, a Muslim inmate alleged that Wisconsin prison officials violated the Free Exercise Clause and Equal Protection Clause by allowing Christian inmates to engage in certain forms of prayer while prohibiting him (and other Muslims) from doing the same. The Seventh Circuit had “no trouble concluding [the inmate’s] claims fall in the heartland of these constitutional protections” and reversed the grant of qualified immunity.

And in St. Vincent, the Seventh Circuit held that under the Department of Justice’s “Touhy” regulations, federal law enforcement agencies have wide discretion to decline to give testimony in state court litigation. Our team explains why these decisions are interesting, important, and worth considering.

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