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Case Digests

Apr 17, 2023

Class Certification-Breach of Contract- Sufficiency of Evidence

In spring 2020, Eddlemon was an undergraduate student at Bradley University.

Apr 17, 2023

Employment Contract – Procedural Due Process

Dr. Bounds, formerly employed as an administrator for the Country Club Hills School District in suburban Chicago, has sued the School District contending that the School District deprived her of due process by posting her position as vacant after she did not timely sign a written employment contract for the forthcoming school year.

Apr 17, 2023

Class Action-Antitrust

The City of Chicago was desperate to find untapped sources of funds during the recession of 2008.

Apr 17, 2023

Summary Judgment – Title VII Violation

Trahanas worked as a research technician in a medical lab.

Apr 17, 2023

Title VII Religious Discrimination

Kluge brought a Title VII religious discrimination and retaliation suit against Brownsburg Community School Corporation (“Brownsburg”) after he was terminated from his employment as a teacher for refusing to follow the school’s guidelines for addressing students.

Apr 10, 2023

Electronic Health Records Charges

The petitioner, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (UW Hospitals), seeks review of a court of appeals opinion reversing and remanding the circuit court's dismissal of Beatriz Banuelos's complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

Apr 10, 2023

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Ms. Ericka Walker was shot and killed in her bedroom during a crowded house party in the early morning hours of March 7, 2015, when a fight bordering on a brawl erupted.

Apr 10, 2023

Real Estate Transfer-Legal Sufficiency

This case involves a claim that the seller, in a real estate sale, misrepresented the condition of the subject property, which has given rise to confusion because three legally distinct entities— —Elias "Louis" Pagoudis, Sead Properties, LLC (Sead LLC), and Kearns Management, LLC (Kearns LLC) ——conflated their interests when filing their complaint.

Apr 10, 2023

Postconviction Relief – Fifth Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination

This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals, State v. Hoyle, No. 2020AP1876-CR, unpublished slip op.

Apr 10, 2023

Intrastate Detainer Act

Posorske appeals from a judgment dismissing two criminal charges against him without prejudice, following the State’s violation of the Intrastate Detainer Act.

Apr 10, 2023

Postconviction Relief

Alvarado was charged with one count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety with the use of a dangerous weapon and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Apr 10, 2023

Postconviction Relief –

In 2005, the State charged Helmeid in a criminal complaint with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child under sixteen years of age.

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