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Frank Hull appeals a judgment dismissing his negligence claim against John Glewwe and Glewwe’s insurer, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company. Hull and Glewwe were both injured in an accident that occurred during a roofing project at Hull’s home.

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David Hestekin, Teresa Hestekin, and Bruce Remington (collectively, “the Hestekins”) appeal a summary judgment declaring they do not have a second easement over property owned by Cynthia Weir and Kane Road Farms, LLC (collectively, “Weir”), and awarding Weir damages for lost income resulting from her inability to farm the land upon which the Hestekins trespassed.

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Kurt Gray appeals a domestic abuse injunction entered in favor of his former girlfriend, Brenda.

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Varlen Corporation owned and operated two industrial sites that were found to have significant amounts of groundwater contamination related to the sites’ operations.

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Sometimes settling a case is the only course that makes sense.

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In a prior appeal, we affirmed an order granting Mark Jensen’s application for habeas relief from his conviction for the 1998 murder of his wife, Julie. Jensen v. Clements, 800 F.3d 892 (7th Cir. 2015).

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Anthony Gant brought this action against three police officers and the City of Fort Wayne for injuries he sustained as he fled from an armed robbery.

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Maurice Collins pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine and crack cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).

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Dr. Sushil Sheth amassed significant wealth as a cardiologist, but, as he later admitted in a plea agreement, he did so in a scheme to overbill government and private insurers by approximately $13 million.

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Antoine Richmond entered a conditional plea of guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon.

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T.S. appeals the circuit court’s order terminating his parental rights to his son, C.P., now a 3-year-old.

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Richard Zecchino and Adams Outdoor Advertising Limited Partnership Corporation (collectively, “Adams”), appeal the denial of their motion to reopen an order dismissing Adams’s complaint against Dane County and the Dane County Board of Supervisors, an order which was also affirmed on appeal in a published opinion.

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Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company and its insureds, attorney James Vance and law firm Vance, Wilcox & Martin, S.C. (collectively, Vance), appeal an order of the circuit court dismissing their amended third-party complaint against VH Land, LLC, Spruce Hollow Land, LLC, MREC VH Madison, LLC, Veridian Homes, LLC, and David Simon (collectively, the Buyers).

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The appellants (collectively, the Nonns) own and operate a business that was affected by a highway construction project.

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Samuel Jones was convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide following a jury trial.

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In this lawsuit initiated in the La Crosse County Circuit Court, Melinda Wagner claims that she was injured in an auto accident.

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David Lovell appeals a judgment of conviction on five counts of possession of child pornography following a bench trial.

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Christopher and Patricia Gorecki (hereafter Gorecki) appeal from a declaratory judgment.

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David Zimmerman and David and Le’Ann Zimmerman Revocable Trust (collectively the Zimmermans) appeal from an order on certiorari and summary judgment.

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A.M. appeals from orders terminating her parental rights and from postdisposition orders denying her request to discharge appointed counsel and proceed pro se on appeal.

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Albert Moustakis appeals a judgment dismissing his claims seeking a common law writ of mandamus and a declaration that part of the Wisconsin public records law, WIS. STAT. § 19.356 (2017-18), is unconstitutional as applied to him.

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Bessemer Plywood Company and Harleysville Lake States Insurance Company (collectively, “Bessemer”) appeal a grant of summary judgment in favor of Great West Casualty Company (“Great West”).

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Lue Xiong appeals his judgments of conviction and the trial court’s denial of his postconviction motion seeking to modify his sentence.

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Lisa Jacobson appeals from an order of the circuit court that granted BMO Harris NA’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed Jacobson’s claims.

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John Sparre, a locomotive engineer who previously worked for Norfolk Southern Railway Company, challenges the final orders and judgments entered in his lawsuit asserting violations of the Federal Railroad Safety Act, 49 U.S.C. § 20109.

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Antonio Lopez-Aguilar brought this action against the Marion County Sheriff’s Department (“the Sheriff’s Department”), Sheriff John R. Layton, in both his official capacity and his individual capacity, and a sergeant of the Sheriff’s Department, in his individual capacity (together, “the defendants”).

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The district court found that Spectrum Brands, Inc. (“Spectrum”) violated section 15(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (“CPSA” or the “Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 2064(b)(3), when its subsidiary failed to timely report to the government a potentially hazardous defect in its Black & Decker SpaceMaker coffeemaker despite years’ worth of consumer complaints about the product.

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In the fall of 2011 Caterpillar Inc. began making serious inquiries about the possible acquisition of a Chinese mining company, ERA Mining Machinery Ltd., and its wholly‐owned subsidiary, Zhengzhou Siwei Mechanical & Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (We refer to the two companies as “Siwei” for simplicity.)

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A jury found Ronnie Cosby guilty of several sex-related offenses, including transporting T.L., a minor, from Illinois to Indiana with the intent that she engage in prostitution.

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In 2007, Victor Martin Villa Serrano (“Villa”) reentered the United States after having been removed in 2005.

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