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The Copyright Act gives federal district courts discretion to award “full costs” to a party in copyright litigation.

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Respondent Michael Loos was injured while working at petitioner BNSF Railway Company’s railyard.

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Impelling prompt registration of copyright claims, 17 U. S. C. §411(a) states that “no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until . . . registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance with this title.”

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The Milwaukee County Circuit Court, T. Christopher Dee presiding, denied the State's motion to recall A.L.'s juvenile delinquency proceedings.

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The circuit court entered an order terminating the appellant A.V.’s parental rights to his daughter, M.D. (the child), following a “grounds” hearing at which the court determined that the grounds for terminating A.V.’s parental rights had been established.

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William Hampton appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying postconviction relief entered by the Crawford County Circuit Court.

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L.R.H.-J. appeals from the involuntary termination of her parental rights (TPR) to her daughter, J.N.J.-W. Birth mother was found unfit at the “grounds” stage of the TPR proceeding pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 48.415(9m) after the Racine County Human Services Department (the department) moved uncontested for summary judgment.

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Kevin Ian End appeals from a judgment convicting him of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC), both second offenses, and challenges the circuit court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained through an unlawful stop.

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Michael Wade appeals his judgment of conviction entered after a jury convicted him of misdemeanor intimidation of a witness and two counts of knowingly violating a domestic abuse injunction, all charged as a habitual criminality repeater.

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Sayuri Gildersleeve appeals a divorce judgment that terminated her marriage to Troy Gildersleeve. Sayuri argues that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion when awarding maintenance and dividing the parties’ property.

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Larry George, pro se, appeals an order denying his motion for sentence reduction and “emergency motion for release.”

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Allan Edward Skodowski, Jr. appeals that portion of the divorce judgment requiring that he pay maintenance to Gloria Skodowski.

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Christopher Deshawn McGinnis appeals from a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, for first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime, first-degree recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

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David Mader appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of Martha Janey and an order denying his motion for reconsideration.

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Jarmel Dontra Chisem appeals his judgment of conviction after a jury convicted him of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime while using a dangerous weapon, as a repeater, and first-degree recklessly endangering safety as a party to a crime while using a dangerous weapon, as a repeater.

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Tony Sansone, who is confined to a wheelchair, needs a parking place with room to deploy his van’s wheelchair ramp.

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In 2017 Steve Briggins was convicted of robbing multiple banks over several months.

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Jesus Salgado pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin.

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William and Nancy Liebhart together own three houses on the same block in Watertown, Wisconsin.

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Jason Galloway pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition as a felon.

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Plaintiffs-appellants purchased land near a former General Electric Company manufacturing plant that had operated for sixty years; the plant leached toxic chemicals that seeped into the groundwater.

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

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Edward Branson appeals a judgment convicting him of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine.

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The Eighth Amendment, this Court has held, prohibits the execution of a prisoner whose mental illness prevents him from “rational[ly] understanding” why the State seeks to impose that punishment.

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In Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U. S. 470 (2000), this Court held that when an attorney’s deficient performance costs a defendant an appeal that the defendant would have otherwise pursued, prejudice to the defendant should be presumed “with no further showing from the defendant of the merits of his underlying claims.”

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The International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 grants international organizations such as the World Bank and the World Health Organization the “same immunity from suit . . . as is enjoyed by foreign governments.”

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To take an immediate appeal from a federal district court’s order granting or denying class certification, a party must first seek permission from the relevant court of appeals “within 14 days after the order is entered.”

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The petition in this case presents the following question: May a federal court count the vote of a judge who dies before the decision is issued?

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In this duty to defend case, West Bend Mutual Insurance Company asks us to reverse the court of appeals' decision holding that the allegations in Abbott Laboratories' complaint against Ixthus Medical Supply, Inc. alleged a potentially covered advertising injury, and as a result, triggered West Bend's duty to defend under the commercial general liability policy West Bend issued to Ixthus.

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We review the report of the referee, Attorney John Nicholas Schweitzer, recommending that the court suspend the Wisconsin law license of Attorney Melinda Alfredson for 90 days and order her to pay the full costs of this disciplinary proceeding.

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