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Appellate Jurisdiction – Qualified Immunity
Jerry Smith, Jr. reportedly left the scene of a fight and returned with a gun.
4th Amendment Violation – Sale of Seized Property
The City of Chicago requires its police officers to seize, inventory, and store any property belonging to an arrested person, if that property is not permitted in the Cook County Jail.
Appellate Jurisdiction
Wisconsin inmate Marvin Carter has waited four years and counting to challenge his 2017 sentence on direct appeal in state court.
Summary Judgment – Discrimination and Retaliation Claims
Robert Bless, a police officer for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, was fired after an internal review board determined that he had violated office policies and then lied to investigators about his misconduct.
Tax Code – Spousal Relief
Married since 1967, John and Frances Rogers filed joint federal income tax returns for many years.
Equal Protection Claim – Sex Offender Registration Act
Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act (“SORA”) imposes registration requirements and restrictions on sex offenders who reside, work, or study in the State. Ind. Code § 11-8-8-1 et seq.
Anti-Terrorism Act – Subject-matter Jurisdiction
In 1996 David Boim was shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while studying abroad in Israel.
Statutory Interpretation – RCRA – Imminent or Substantial Hazards
Between 1937 and 2006 Johnson Controls and a predecessor operated a manufacturing plant in Goshen, Indiana.
Weekly Case Digests – October 1, 2021 – October 15, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – October 1, 2021 - October 15, 2021
CHIPS – Newly Discovered Evidence
M.T.W. appeals from a dispositional order entered after a jury verdict, adjudicating C.M.R.-W. as a child in need of protection or services (CHIPS). M.T.W. filed a postdisposition motion a year later contending that newly discovered evidence warranted a new trial.
Abuse of Discretion – Juvenile Court Jurisdiction Waiver
M.C. appeals from an order of the circuit court. He contends the court “erroneously exercise[d] its discretion when it waived M.C. into adult court without considering the suitability of the serious juvenile offender program.”
Involuntary Commitment and Medication
Peter Farnsworth appeals an order committing him for treatment in order to restore him to competency to proceed in his criminal case, and subjecting him to involuntary medication.
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- 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
