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A jury found Salvatore Picardi guilty of one count of embezzlement by an officer or employee of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 654.

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The wording of the provision that we interpret today is enough to make a grammarian throw down her pen.

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Kenyatta Bridges was a pretrial detainee at the Cook County Department of Corrections (“Department”) when he fell out of the upper bunk to which he had been assigned and injured himself.

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Marvin Cates pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a person with a prior felony conviction in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

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Shawn Lee sold a staggering amount of ice methamphetamine in Central Illinois from early 2015 until his arrest in January 2018.

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Weekly Case Digests – March 23, 2020 – March 27, 2020

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Kohler Company sought to convert 247 acres of land located in the Town of Wilson into a world championship golf course.

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Charles L. Neill, IV seeks review of the court of appeals decision affirming the judgment and order upholding his sentence for third-offense OWI.

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The Germantown School District Board of Education and Germantown School District (collectively, the "School District") seek review of a court of appeals decision affirming the circuit court's order and judgment, which denied the School District's motion for attorney fees.

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The petitioner, Carrie E. Counihan, seeks review of an unpublished, authored decision of the court of appeals affirming her judgment of conviction and the denial of her motion for postconviction relief.

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This case comes before us on bypass, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 809.60 (2017–18), from the circuit court for Ozaukee County.

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This case arises out of the Town of Dupont and Waupaca County reconstructing and widening a Town road that Christopher Elandt alleges encroaches on his property.

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Michael J. Vieth filed a petition in the circuit court for writ of certiorari, along with a proposed writ, challenging action taken by Wisconsin Parole Chairperson Daniel J. Gabler.

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Natalie appeals a circuit court order involuntarily terminating her parental rights to her son, Charlie.

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Jacqueline Ziriax Anderson appeals a judgment convicting her of second-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and an order denying her postconviction motion for plea withdrawal.

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Andre Stackhouse, who was captured on video stabbing an individual in a nightclub in front of a police officer, was convicted after a jury trial of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and aggravated battery, both with a penalty enhancer for the use of a dangerous weapon during the commission of the offense.

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Antrim Pharmaceuticals LLC and Bio-Pharm, Inc. arranged to manufacture and sell a generic anti-depressant.

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Jesse Ballard has an extraordinarily long history of criminal conduct, which the sentencing judge described as “probably one of the worst criminal histories [he’d] seen in 30 years” of experience.

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IT IS ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED.

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Petitioner Rick E. Jacobsen’s former wife Tina M. Lemmens embezzled over $400,000 from her employer, income that was not reported on the couple’s jointly filed income taxes.

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Buddy Phillips (now deceased) injured his ribs while playing with his grandchildren.

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Grayson Enterprises, Inc., is a roofing company that does business under the trade name Gire Roofing.

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DeWayne Perry, serving a long sentence for murder, suffers from aphasia, which impairs his ability to speak, write, and understand words.

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Plaintiffs are consultants who provide services to nursing homes and long‐term care facilities.

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On July 28, 2016, two men entered a Sprint store with a gun, threatened and zip‐tied all witnesses, grabbed some merchandise, and fled the store in two vehicles.

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This is an appeal from an adversary proceeding in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and concerns a trade creditor’s right to reclaim goods it sold to the debtor on the eve of bankruptcy.

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From 2011 through 2016, Roy Collins was the executive director of the Kankakee Valley Park District (“the Park District”), which is a municipal entity that serves residents of Aroma Park and Kankakee Townships, Illinois.

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Charles Curry brought this action pro se in the district court, alleging that Revolution Laboratories, LLC (“Revolution”), Rev Labs Management, Inc. (“Management”), and Joshua and Barry Nussbaum (collectively the “defendants”) had infringed and diluted his trademark, violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act, violated the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, engaged in false advertising and cybersquatting, and filed a fraudulent trademark application.

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After Roberto Guzman-Ramirez pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, he was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment.

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Weekly Case Digests – March 16, 2020 – March 20, 2020

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