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Troy K. Kettlewell appeals from a judgment of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (OWI), fourth offense.

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Taurus Donnell Renfro appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of carrying a concealed weapon.

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Jeffrey Edward Olson, pro se, appeals the trial court’s order denying his postconviction motion for plea withdrawal.

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Lara Bush-Pensy appeals from an order denying her motion for relief from a harassment injunction entered in favor of Timothy Pflieger.

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In these two consolidated cases, Shane Robbins, pro se, appeals a judgment of conviction for thirteen felonies and two postconviction orders.

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Larry Lokken appeals a judgment convicting him of three counts of misconduct in office and five counts of theft in a business setting, as a party to the crime, each of an amount greater than $10,000.

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This appeal presents the question whether a bankruptcy court can determine the amount of a debtor’s tax obligations, when the debtor is unlikely to pay them.

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The opinion of this court issued on September 18, 2019, is amended as follows...

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The Indianapolis 500 race has been a fixture of American life since 1911, interrupted only by world war.

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Tywon Salters, a pretrial detainee in Kane County, Illinois, swallowed some cleaning fluid, apparently in an effort to commit suicide.

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These two appeals present straightforward issues of contract law, but with some procedural complications.

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The petition for rehearing en banc is GRANTED. The opinion and judgment entered by the panel are VACATED.

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Dennis Davis is an Illinois prisoner suffering from kidney disease.

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Weekly Case Digests – October 7, 2019 – October 11, 2019

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and Attorney Elizabeth Farrell have filed a stipulation pursuant to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 22.12 that Attorney Farrell be publicly reprimanded, as discipline reciprocal to that imposed by the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon.

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Donald Lecheler, pro se, appeals a $2,000 small claims judgment in favor of his former tenant, Steven K. Stack.

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Summit Credit Union initiated this action in the Dane County Circuit Court seeking a money judgment against David L. Mancl after Mancl failed to pay amounts due on his credit card account with Summit.

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Scott Carrington Matthew appeals an order (1) vacating a default judgment entered in Matthew’s favor against Elite Team Auto Brokers, LLC, its owners, and a manager (collectively, Elite) and (2) dismissing Matthew’s action without prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction under WIS. STAT. § 801.05 (2017-18).

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Eddie Ben Sanders appeals from judgments convicting him of attempted third-degree sexual assault, felony intimidation of a witness, and violating the sex offender registry.

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Amy Zahurones pled no contest to four counts arising from a single course of conduct.

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Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel, LLC (WMH) appeals an order of the circuit court, following a court trial, upholding the City of Milwaukee’s 2014 and 2015 property tax assessments of the Milwaukee Marriott Hotel Downtown (the Hotel) located in downtown Milwaukee.

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Bufkin Academy, LLC appeals an order of the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

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Nasonville Dairy, Inc. (“Nasonville”) appeals a judgment awarding $290,000 to Daniel Freund, as receiver for Liberty Milk Marketing Cooperative (“Liberty”).

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William Peterson, pro se, appeals an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2017-18) postconviction motion for plea withdrawal and sentence modification.

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In these consolidated appeals, Randall Hungerford claims his attorney’s deficient performance prevented him from moving to withdraw his pleas prior to sentencing.

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Zurich Insurance (Taiwan), Ltd., and Taian Insurance Company, Ltd., are insurance companies based in Taiwan.

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In late 2009 Cathy Truitt filed seven nearly identical tax returns, each falsely claiming that she was entitled to a $300,000 refund.

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A jury found Terrance Curtis guilty of first-degree reckless homicide for causing the death of his five-month-old son, R.C.

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Dino Greco spent more than a decade in prison for blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s car with a pipe bomb.

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This interlocutory bankruptcy appeal presents a matter of first impression for our court: whether Illinois’s version of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code requires a financing statement to contain within its four corners a specific description of secured collateral, or if incorporating a description by reference to an unattached security agreement sufficiently “indicates” the collateral.

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