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Civil Digest

Sep 23, 2019

Jury Instructions

In November 2010 Dallas Green was walking through a Citgo parking lot late at night when an unmarked Chicago police vehicle turned into the lot.

Sep 23, 2019

Summary Judgment – Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies

Jeremy Lockett, an inmate at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (“WSPF”), brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover for alleged violations of his constitutional rights under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

Sep 23, 2019

EEOC Claim – Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies

The plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, allege a racially discriminatory hiring scheme that has resulted in a lack of Hispanic and Latino line workers at Ford Motor Company’s Chicago assembly plant.

Sep 23, 2019

Preliminary Injunction – Judicial Bypass Procedure

Consistent with Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979), Indiana statutes have long provided a fast and confidential judicial bypass procedure that is supposed to allow a small fraction of pregnant, unemancipated minors seeking abortions to obtain them without the consent of or notice to their parents, guardians, or custodians.

Sep 23, 2019

Preliminary Injunction – Abuse of Discretion

Voting is at once an intensely personal act and a choice to participate in the collective process of representative democracy.

Sep 23, 2019

Sentencing Guidelines

On the evening of February 9, 2017, Michael Barber and his friend Anthony Chipps used a crowbar to break into Dutchman Hunting Supplies in Shipshewana, Indiana, and steal 15 handguns.

Sep 23, 2019

8th Amendment Violation – Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies

Travis Williams appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of several correctional employees.

Sep 18, 2019

Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings

This is a reciprocal discipline matter.

Sep 18, 2019

Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings

We review a supplemental referee's report and recommendation concluding that Attorney Cole J. White committed 27 counts of professional misconduct in his handling of four client matters.

Sep 18, 2019

Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings

Pending before the court is a report and recommendation filed by Referee Richard M. Esenberg.

Sep 18, 2019

Insurance Claim – Coverage

Jacob Beedle appeals a summary judgment dismissing IMT Insurance Company (“the insurer”) from Beedle’s suit against the insurer and its insured, Pierce Phillips (“the insured”), based on the circuit court’s application of a business exclusion in a homeowner’s insurance policy.

Sep 18, 2019

Sentencing Guidelines – OWI

Alfonso Loayza appeals a judgment of conviction for operating while intoxicated and an order denying his postconviction motion.

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