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Jimmy Thompson was charged by indictment and pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C § 922(g)(1).

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Linda Rowlands claims that United Parcel Service (“UPS”) discriminated against her because she had a disability, failed to accommodate her disability, and retaliated against her when she requested accommodations, all in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 14 U.S.C. § 12111 et seq. (“ADA”).

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Since entering the custody of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in 2009, Donald Wilson has sought medical treatment for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, neck and throat pain, and difficulty breathing and swallowing.

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Michael Beley and Douglas Montgomery represent a class of sex offenders who allege that the City of Chicago refused to register them under the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) because they could not produce proof of address.

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During 2013, While Gregory Koger was serving a 300-day sentence in Cook County Jail, Barbara Lyons sent him at least ten books, plus some magazines and newspapers.

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In December 2002, law enforcement seized $100,120 in United States currency from a passenger on an Amtrak train.

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Defendant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) appeals from a jury verdict awarding $3 million to plaintiff Wendy Dolin for the death of her husband, Stewart Dolin. Mrs. Dolin alleges that GSK’s negligent omissions in the drug label for Paxil caused her husband’s death.

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Wexford Health Sources provides medical care to inmates in Illinois’s prisons. Donald Beard, Jr., an inmate, experiences chronic ankle pain.

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In 2015, tattooed members of the Mara 18 gang held a gun to petitioner W.G.A.’s head and threatened to kill him.

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Sabafon, a telephone company based in Yemen, wanted to buy cards that would provide its customers with prepaid minutes of phone use.

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When Betty Holcomb ran up a credit-card bill and did not pay, the creditor hired the law firm of Freedman Anselmo Lindberg, LLC (“Freedman”), to collect it.

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In 2010, Wayne Scott was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment and 36 months of supervised release after entering into a written plea agreement for engaging in two schemes to defraud investors and potential investors.

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Pedro Rivas-Pena has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States and is a citizen of Mexico.

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Five years after entering the United States, ostensibly as the unmarried son of a lawful permanent resident, Laith Bijan applied to become a naturalized citizen.

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A litigant in a civil case has neither a statutory nor a constitutional right to counsel.

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In 2009 Blanchard & Associates, a Chicago law firm, provided legal services to an Indian pharmaceutical company, Lupin Ltd. (“Lupin India”), and its American subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Lupin USA”).

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For more than half a century, Caterpillar Inc. paid unemployment benefits to laid-off employees at its manufacturing plant in Joliet, Illinois.

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George Plessinger applied for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act based on his chronic back pain.

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Weekly Case Digests — September 10 - September 14, 2018

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Altherelle Robbins appeals from a judgment convicting him of first-degree recklessly endangering safety and possessing cocaine with intent to deliver and from an order denying his postconviction motion seeking resentencing.

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Laymon Quendell Price appeals a judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of three counts of kidnapping by use of a dangerous weapon and five counts of first-degree sexual assault.

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Mark Malm appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

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Erik J. Wille appeals his conviction for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant (OWI) and operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC).

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DeWayne Knight appeals pro se from a circuit court order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2015-16) motion without a hearing.

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This is an appeal of a judgment in a garnishment action brought by Carol and Terrance Beck.

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Seth Lehrke appeals a judgment of conviction, entered following a jury trial, and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

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Sammy Joseph Hadaway appeals the order denying his petition for a writ of coram nobis seeking to withdraw his plea.

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Ronnie Cecil Peebles was convicted of battery in the Waushara County Circuit Court.

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Marquis D. Walls appeals a judgment of conviction, entered on a jury’s verdict, for attempting to flee or elude a traffic officer.

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Natalie Murphy was convicted at a jury trial of first-degree reckless homicide and second-degree recklessly endangering safety in the Juneau County Circuit Court.

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