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Termination of Parental Rights
D.L. appeals an order of the trial court terminating his parental rights of Y.P.-T. D.L. asserts that the court erroneously exercised its discretion in excluding evidence relating to a prior trial regarding D.L.’s parental rights of Y.P.-T., in which the State was unsuccessful in proving that D.L. had failed to assume parental responsibility of Y.P.-T.
Sufficiency of Evidence
Corey Stauner appeals a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdict, convicting him of two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.
ALJ Error – Extended Supervision
Patrick Schober’s extended supervision was revoked following a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ), and he was ordered reconfined.
ERISA – Pensions
Willie P. Watkins appeals the trial court’s order affirming the decision of the Pension Board of the Employees’ Retirement System of the County of Milwaukee (Board) that upheld the denial of Watkins’ application to retire under the Rule of 75.
Sentencing Guidelines
From 2012 to 2015, employees of Elite Imports, a car dealership, engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities.
Sufficiency of Evidence
A jury found Jessica A. O’Brien guilty of both bank fraud and mail fraud affecting a financial institution based on her participation in a 2004-to-2007 mortgage fraud scheme.
Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference
Levi Lord, an inmate in the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, exposed himself to a female guard.
Immigration – Removal Proceedings
Benjamin Omorhienrhien is a Nigerian citizen who received conditional permanent resident status based on his marriage to a United States citizen.
Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
This case is the culmination of a grotesque history of sexual abuse in the Geary household.
Class Action – Personal Jurisdiction
Florence Mussat, an Illinois physician doing business through a professional services corporation, received two unsolicited faxes from IQVIA, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Pennsylvania.
Due Process Violation
This § 1983 case arises out of disciplinary decisions issued by the Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Board between 2013 and 2016.
Unlawful-stop Claim – Reasonable Suspicion
One hundred police departments use a surveillance network of GPS-enabled acoustic sensors called ShotSpotter to identify gunfire, quickly triangulate its location, and then direct officers to it.
Polls
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- Milwaukee County District Attorney, UWM police address Jewish threats
- With GOP convention over, Milwaukee weighs the benefits of hosting political rivals
- Secret Service head resigns as Congress formally investigates
- Milwaukee Police Department issues statement regarding video release policy
- GOP convention sets the stage for the Democratic convention in Chicago, activists and police say
- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property
