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Weekly Case Digests – July 5, 2021 – July 9, 2021

Anyone who has applied for a passport, filed for Social Security benefits, or sought a license understands the government’s affinity for forms.

In 2009, an Alaska jury convicted Sean Wright of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor.

The Court entered the following order on this date: On March 15, 2021, Attorney Laura Waite filed a request pursuant to SCR 22.34(11), for indefinite suspension of her license to practice law in this state due to her medical incapacity.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that corrections were made to paragraphs 1 and 39 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on April 29, 2021.

Ronald J. Greenwood appeals from a judgment of replevin requiring him to return a dog to Shawna Hathaway.

J.J.K. appeals an involuntary commitment order entered pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 51.20 and an involuntary medication order entered pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 51.61(1)(g)3.

Tyler Mueller was injured while hunting when a gun he was holding discharged.

Aquilla Jessie appeals a circuit court order dismissing his petition for declaratory judgment.

Approximately nine years after Janelle Casey and Mark Schimke divorced, Casey petitioned for a constructive trust, alleging that Schimke had failed to make required financial disclosures under WIS. STAT. § 767.127 (2019-20) at the time of divorce.

Brady appeals from a delinquency order and the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained following law enforcement officers’ warrantless entry into his apartment.

Scott William Forrett challenges his judgment of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, seventh offense (OWI), and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

Alex Premo seeks review of a suppression ruling that led him to plead guilty on a drug charge.

Anthony Nemetz appeals from a judgment convicting him of multiple criminal offenses and an order denying his postconviction motion.

Wade Weckler appeals a judgment dismissing his adverse possession counterclaim against ADEM LLC.

Adamm Linton appeals the circuit court’s denial of his motion requesting sentence modification on the basis that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), represents a change in the law applicable to sentencing juveniles and is a new factor entitling him to sentence modification.

SVA Healthcare Services, LLC, (“SVA”) appeals an order certifying a class and appointing plaintiff Timothy Rave as class representative.

Cole and Joseph Kretman (collectively “Kretman”) appeal from a declaratory judgment upholding an insurance policy limitation for injuries caused by a “dangerous dog.”

Blong Vang appeals a judgment of conviction, following his guilty plea, on one count of conspiracy to commit child abuse—intentionally cause bodily harm, contrary to WIS. STAT. §§ 948.03(2)(b) and 939.31 (2019-20).

An informant gave South Bend police the number to a phone that drug dealers in the South Bend area were supposedly using to sell drugs.

Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), prisoners filing petitions to proceed in a suit in forma pauperis (“IFP”) can’t deliberately misrepresent their financial status.

Plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant John F. Cloutier was a pilot for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee GoJet Airlines, LLC.

Kenneth Smith has been in state prison for nineteen years for a murder and robbery that he insists he did not commit.

In his plea agreement, defendant David Bridgewater waived the right to seek any modification of his sentence.

Emmanuel Hart was convicted by a jury of robbing two Chicago banks in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a).

Over the course of a three-week crime spree in October 2017, Rex Hammond robbed, or attempted to rob, seven stores at gunpoint in Indiana and Michigan.

Amit Sinha appeals the rejection of his retaliation claims against his employer, Bradley University, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

This appeal is part of an ongoing, decade-long, three-lawsuit fight between an insurer, Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast, and its insured, Creation Supply, Inc. (“CSI”), over who owed what when.

Weekly Case Digests – June 28, 2021 – July 2, 2021

Under Miller v. Alabama, 567 U. S. 460 (2012), an individual who commits a homicide when he or she is under 18 may be sentenced to life without parole, but only if the sentence is not mandatory and the sentencer therefore has discretion to impose a lesser punishment.