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Always Towing and Recovery, Inc. and Jason Pehowski (collectively Always Towing) appeal an order of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of the City of Milwaukee.

The petitioner, Lindsey Dostal (Dostal), both individually and as special administrator of the estate of Haeven Dostal, seeks review of a court of appeals decision affirming the circuit court's grant of summary and declaratory judgment in favor of State Farm.

Attorney William E. Fenger filed a petition for the consensual revocation of his license to practice law in Wisconsin pursuant to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 22.19.1 In his petition, Attorney Fenger states that he cannot successfully defend against multiple allegations of misconduct in connection with a grievance investigated by the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR).

Jackson was found guilty of homicide.

Keonta Latrez Moore appeals his judgment of conviction for one count of first-degree reckless injury, one count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Nicholas Meyer was convicted, upon his no-contest pleas, of first-degree sexual assault of a child (sexual contact with a person under age thirteen) and causing mental harm to a child.

Jackson appeals from a judgment of conviction, entered upon his guilty plea, convicting him of third-degree sexual assault.

Cave Enterprises Operations, LLC (Cave) appeals the circuit court order granting class certification on the basis of unlawful deprivation of overtime wages to a class of salaried general managers and assistant general managers of Burger King restaurants at Wisconsin locations that were owned and operated by Cave.

Lance Dante Delk, pro se, appeals his judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of two counts of trafficking a child.

Ruth appeals an order terminating her parental rights (TPR) to Adam based on a petition filed by the Rusk County Department of Health and Human Services.

Talia appeals an order involuntarily terminating her parental rights to her daughter, Ashley (pseudonyms).

A statute in Indiana makes it a crime for anyone who “has or had” a professional relation with a person under the age of 18 to “use[] or exert[] the person’s professional relationship to engage in sexual intercourse” with that young person.

Between 1993 and 2017, the City of Chicago treated aviation security officers at O’Hare Airport as law-enforcement personnel, able to make arrests while employed and to carry concealed firearms after retirement.

Alt planned to meet with a fifteen-year-old boy whom he met on Grindr to smoke marijuana and engage in sexual activity.

After pleading guilty in the Western District of Wisconsin to distributing methamphetamine, Von Vader was sentenced to 270 months’ imprisonment.

In 1993 the Village of Channahon, Illinois, approved the plat of a residential subdivision lying within the DuPage River Special Flood Hazard Area.

Benny Butler downloaded, distributed, and shared a vast amount of child pornography via internet chat rooms catering to this trade.

Cruz‐Velasco, a native and citizen of Mexico, is seeking cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b). Cruz‐Velasco entered the U.S. without inspection in 1999.

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.

Slabey argues that her § 1983 claim against Dunn County survives summary judgment because she presented evidence sufficient for a reasonable jury to find that Dunn County violated her rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when then-Dunn County Correctional Officer Ryan Boigenzahn sexually assaulted her.

Elizabeth appeals from an order of the circuit court terminating her parental rights to her son, Everett.2 On appeal, she argues that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion at the disposition hearing when it weighed the factors found in WIS.

O.F. appeals the order terminating his parental rights to his daughter, J.G.R. O.F. contends that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel violated his duty of confidentiality and loyalty.

Marvin Lee Rogers appeals from the non-final order of the circuit court denying his motion to dismiss a criminal weapon possession charge on the basis of double jeopardy.

Groenewold appeals a judgment, entered following a jury trial, convicting him of one count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and three counts of causing a child to view sexual activity.

This appeal addresses whether a transgender individual (Robert) met the statutory requirements for a confidential name change under WIS. STAT. § 786.37(4) (2019-20).

Marquise Lamont Brown appeals his judgment of conviction for second-degree reckless homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon, as a party to a crime, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.