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Avery Smartt had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old runaway (S.S.) and traveled around the country with her as he worked as an over-the-road trucker.

Jose Oregon owed the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) approximately $60,000 in back taxes and penalties but could not afford to pay.

In September 2020, Sanchez filed a whistleblower complaint with the United States Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) against his former employer, DuPage Regional Office of Education (“DuPage”).

In 2016 Joy Global Inc., and Komatsu America Corp., two manufacturers of heavy equipment used in mining, agreed to merge.

Melvin Williams was shot and killed on May 23, 2009, and two other men—Robert Taylor and Romero Davis—were injured in the same shooting.

Plaintiff-appellant Zall worked more than twenty years as a dentist, but chronic pain and numbness in his neck and right arm made it impossible for him to keep working.

Three insurance companies—Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, Westfield Insurance Company, and Star Insurance Company—dispute their respective obligations to defend a swine farm (Sandstone) in a state court nuisance case.

After completing a 90-day orientation program for newly licensed nurses, Bragg was denied a fulltime position as a Registered Nurse (RN) at Community Hospital, which is operated by Munster Medical Research Foundation.

Humphrey drove for Riteway Trucking. All of his trips began in South Holland, Illinois.

Michael Juday has worked for FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler) for more than two decades.

Several affiliated traders set up four accounts with Trean Group, an introducing broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. An introducing broker manages the customer side of the futures-trading business.

Behning, an Illinois prisoner, appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants on his claims that prison guards violated his constitutional rights while responding to his altercation with a prison guard.

Bankruptcy trustees can recover some transfers made to outside parties during the 90 days before the debtor files a petition. 11 U.S.C. §547(b)(4)(A).

Roman Baro was an English-as-a-second-language teacher for Defendant Waukegan Community School District No. 60 (“the District”) in August 2019 when she signed a union membership form—a contract to join Defendant Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO (“the Union”), the union that represents teachers in the District.

In trying to avoid arrest, appellant Baker ran from police officers, took a loaded firearm out of his waistband, and threw it over a fence into a residential backyard and was sentenced to 72 months and one day in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Porosh, a citizen of Bangladesh, sought asylum because of political persecution.

Adams Outdoor Advertising owns and operates billboards throughout Wisconsin, including 90 in Madison.

While on supervised release, appellant Yankey admitted to a probation officer that he had used methamphetamine and cocaine.

While driving home to Chicago one night in September 2017, Braun suffered a seizure and crashed into a telephone pole in suburban Palatine.

Stapleton lured women into prostitution and exploited them for his financial benefit using threats, force, and other forms of coercion.

After robbing a cellphone store at gunpoint, Jerry pleaded guilty to three crimes, including Hobbs Act robbery.

Turner pleaded guilty to three firearm and drug charges after police discovered a pistol, a rifle, marijuana, and heroin in his apartment.

Defendant employers Transervice Logistics, Inc. and Zenith Logistics, Inc. agreed that for the entire duration of two collective bargaining agreements, they would make pension contributions on behalf of covered employees to plaintiff Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund.

Fourteen people were charged and convicted for a conspiracy to transport illegal drugs from Georgia for distribution in Kokomo, Indiana. In these consolidated appeals, ten defendants challenge their convictions and/or sentences on a host of issues.

HyreCar is an intermediary between people who own vehicles and other people who would like to drive for services such as Uber and GrubHub. Before leasing a car, HyreCar tries to ensure that the potential driver is who he says he is and has the license and driving record he claims to have.

The plaintiffs in this case are 38 firefighters and their union, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 365 (collectively, the “Fire Fighters”) who sued the City of East Chicago, Mayor Anthony Copeland, and former East Chicago Fire Chief Anthony Serna, alleging that the defendants implemented an undesirable work schedule in retaliation for their protected First Amendment activity.

In 2017, Ramos settled two lawsuits he had brought against Cook County Jail correctional officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging a failure to protect Ramos from another inmate and use of excessive force.

Defendant-appellee Edward Filer, an attorney, was charged with two counts of wire fraud under 18 U.S.C.

Ryan signed a worker’s compensation settlement with his employer that set aside $400,000 for disbursement to the doctors who treated him for his workplace injury.

After exchanging hundreds of messages with an FBI agent—who posed first as an 18-year-old woman and then as a 15-year-old girl—and driving to a planned rendezvous at a gas station, appellant Anderson was charged with and convicted of attempted enticement of a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b).