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Stop the Ongoing Mine Permit (STOMP) appeals from an order of the circuit court affirming, on certiorari review, the Town of Ashford Board of Appeals’ (BOA) decision to grant Batzler Trucking, Inc. a conditional use permit to operate an agricultural sand mine in the Town of Ashford.

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Sharlene Bertram appeals a judgment entered in favor of the Estate of Dolores E. Kreitlow, premised on its claims of undue influence and breach of fiduciary duty against Bertram for her conduct while acting as Kreitlow’s power of attorney for finances and property.

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Dakon M. Martin appeals pro se from a judgment convicting him of possessing narcotics (methadone) with intent to deliver on his no contest plea and from a postconviction order denying his motion to withdraw his plea due to ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

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Carol Couturier appeals the trial court’s order affirming the decision of the Pension Board of the Employees’ Retirement System of Milwaukee County (Board) that upheld the recovery of seven months of pension overpayments made to Couturier by the Employees’ Retirement System of Milwaukee County (ERS).

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Nathan Birkholz appeals judgments imposing sentences after the revocation of his probation.

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Sandra J. Kopp appeals the circuit court’s order denying her motion to modify maintenance.

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Konecranes, Inc., Brian Angelroth, and Michael Carroll (collectively, “Konecranes”) appeal from judgments of the circuit court, entered on orders following a jury’s verdict, against Konecranes in favor of plaintiff Bradley Moore and third-party defendant Badger Alloys, Inc.

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John Finley appeals from a judgment of conviction for repeated sexual assault of the same child—his nine-year-old niece—as well as from the denial of his postconviction motion.

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Jeffery Lopez appeals his judgment of conviction entered on his guilty plea to felony intimidation of a victim; a charge of physical abuse of a child was dismissed but considered at sentencing.

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James Moran appeals an order affirming a decision of the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) denying Moran’s application to purchase a handgun in Wisconsin.

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Debtors Harold and Lorraine Wade moved for sanctions against Kreisler Law, P.C., alleging that the law firm violated the automatic stay arising from their bankruptcy petition by filing a lien against Lorraine’s home.

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Shaka Freeman, an African-American man who suffers from alcoholism, sued the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, his former employer, for firing him because of his race and disability.

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In this case we must decide whether James Mollet’s complaint about a racially charged incident was the but-for cause of his constructive discharge.

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We have consolidated two appeals that pose a common question: whether persons who contend that air carriers have violated state law by using biometric identification in the workplace must present these contentions to an adjustment board under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 151–88, which applies to air carriers as well as railroads.

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Shirley Lacko filed suit against United of Omaha Life Insurance Company (“United”), challenging United’s denial of her claims for short‐term and long‐ term disability insurance.

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Mark Richardson, a former Chicago Transit Authority (“CTA”) bus operator, alleged CTA took adverse action against him because of his extreme obesity in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101–12213, as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (“ADAAA”), Pub. L. No. 110-325, 122 Stat. 3553.

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Leonte Williams, an inmate in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections, sued a number of prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they violated his Eighth Amendment rights by providing inadequate nutrition through a “brunch” program that served only two meals a day.

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In this appeal, David Tjader challenges several conditions of his supervised release on grounds he did not raise in the district court.

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Bodum USA, Inc. (“Bodum”) produces and sells what design magazines and art museums have recognized as an iconically designed houseware product—the Chambord French press coffeemaker.

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The word “capsule” can describe many things—a pharmaceutical pill, a space pod, or a short synopsis, for example. What about a cellphone case?

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This case turns on the requirement in 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c) that a litigant show excusable neglect or good cause to file an appeal after the deadline for doing so has passed.

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Weekly Case Digests – July 1, 2019 – July 5, 2019

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One way or another, Medicare touches the lives of nearly all Americans.

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At the conclusion of a bankruptcy proceeding, a bankruptcy court typically enters an order releasing the debtor from liability for most prebankruptcy debts.

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 proscribes discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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This case requires the Court to decide whether a convicted criminal’s period of supervised release is tolled—in effect, paused—during his pretrial detention for a new criminal offense.

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This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals affirming an order of the Circuit Court for Ashland County, Robert E. Eaton, Judge, granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Respondent Dr. James A. Hamp.

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This case is before the court on a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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Peter Hanson ("Hanson") seeks review of the court of appeals' decision affirming the circuit court's denial of his postconviction motion.

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The petitioner, Wilson Mutual Insurance Company (Wilson), seeks review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's order that determined the Teskes' claims were barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion.

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