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Civil Digest

Aug 18, 2020

Child Placement Modification – Change of Circumstances

Amber Michelizzi appeals an order providing Charles Smiley with shared legal custody and increased physical placement of their children.

Aug 18, 2020

Evidentiary Hearing – Vindictive Prosecution

Rodney Lass appeals a judgment entered on jury verdicts convicting him of seven felonies and two misdemeanors, all as domestic abuse violations.

Aug 18, 2020

OWI – Suppression of Evidence

Christann Spannraft, pro se, appeals her judgments of conviction for operating while intoxicated (OWI), first offense, and operating without required lamps lighted.

Aug 18, 2020

Immigration – Removal Order

Yeison Meza Morales is a native and citizen of Mexico who entered the United States without inspection as a child.

Aug 18, 2020

Jury Instructions

Jeremy Wade hoped to reacquaint himself with a girl he knew in high school so he could ask her for a date.

Aug 18, 2020

Subject-matter Jurisdiction

Maria Dijamco came to the United States from the Philippines and sought lawful status to stay in the country through her mother who had a green card.

Aug 18, 2020

Title VII Violation – Discrimination Claim

Lisa Purtue was fired from her job as a Wisconsin correctional officer for falsely claiming that a prisoner hit her with an empty snack cake box that he threw from his cell.

Aug 17, 2020

Time-barred – Legal Malpractice Claim

Elizabeth Ruckelshaus appeals the district court’s determination that Indiana’s statute of limitations bars her legal malpractice claim.

Aug 17, 2020

Qualified Immunity

When a prison official knows that an inmate faces a substantial risk of serious harm, the Eighth Amendment requires that official to take reasonable measures to abate the risk.

Aug 17, 2020

ALJ Error – Disability Benefits

David Daugherty, an administrative law judge hearing disability-benefits applications for the Social Security Administration, supplemented his salary by taking bribes.

Aug 17, 2020

Abuse of Discretion – Motion for Summary Judgment on Exhaustion

The Federal Reporter is replete with examples of prisoners losing cases because they missed litigation deadlines and courts extended little forgiveness.

Aug 17, 2020

Insurance Claim – Garnishment Order

This appeal represents the culmination of more than ten years of litigation between a group of neighbors in Elkhart, Indiana and a nearby wood recycling facility.

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