Weekly Case Digests – November 1, 2021 – November 5, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – November 1, 2021 - November 5, 2021
Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings
We review the report and recommendation of Referee Jean A. DiMotto that Attorney Robert B. Moodie's petition for reinstatement of his license to practice law in Wisconsin be granted.
Insurance Claim – Duty to Defend – Indemnification
Plaintiff Adam Ramos was injured while delivering products to Trail Ridge Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Timber Creek Pizza which at the time occupied a building leased from Ronald Luepke.
Plea & Sentencing – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Samuel Mattioli appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion.
Wrongful Termination of Employment – Sufficiency of Evidence
Dr. Sabina Leigh Burton appeals a circuit court order affirming, on judicial review under WIS. STAT. ch. 227, the decision of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (the Board) terminating her employment as a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWPL).
Sufficiency of Evidence
Jesus M. Medina Fernandez appeals judgments of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree sexual assault by use of a dangerous weapon and two counts of second-degree sexual assault.
Due Process Violation
Erik A. Andrade appeals the circuit court order upholding the decision of the City of Milwaukee Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (the Board) to discharge him from service as an officer with the Milwaukee Police Department.
Postconviction Relief – Juror Challenges
Patrick D. Fowler appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
Sentence Modification
Nugene A. Jackson, pro se, appeals from an order of the circuit court that denied his motion for sentence modification.
Insurance Claim – Coverage
The Estate of Michael Shimeta and Terry Scherr appeal an order denying their motion for judgment on the pleadings and granting Acuity, a Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion for declaratory judgment.
Abuse of Discretion – Postconviction Relief
Danielle Fischer appeals an order denying her WIS. STAT. § 806.07 motion for relief from a prior circuit court order.
Postconviction Relief – Jury Instructions
Marte L. Coffee appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury’s verdict, convicting him of one count of armed carjacking.
Legal News
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies