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Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC (Lowe’s) appeals from an order of the circuit court dismissing its challenges to the City of Delavan’s (the City) 2016 and 2017 tax assessments.

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This appeal arises out of a home construction dispute.

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In 2007, following a jury trial, Steven A. Avery was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, party to the crime, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

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Jacky Lee appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, for a second-offense operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration.

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Jerod Hansen and Catherine Tabor-Hansen (collectively, “the Hansens”) appeal from the circuit court’s grant of a summary judgment in favor of Wendell, Anna and Carlton Klein (collectively, “the Kleins”), dismissing the Kleins from this suit.

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Brian appeals from an order of commitment and an order for involuntary medication and treatment, entered pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 51.20.

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Ryan Swadner appeals a judgment, entered upon his no-contest pleas, convicting him of three counts of homicide by operation of a vehicle with a detectable amount of a restricted controlled substance, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 940.09(1)(am) (2019-20), and one count of injury by operation of a vehicle with a detectable amount of a restricted controlled substance, contrary to WIS. STAT. § 346.63(2)(a)3.

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Midwest Dental Care, Mondovi, Inc., appeals the circuit court’s denial of its summary judgment motion for dismissal of a counterclaim made against it by Dr. Kristina Welle for breach of an employment contract.

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Rachel Slabey appeals a grant of summary judgment in favor of Dunn County (“the County”), Dennis Smith, Brenda LaForte, Marshall Multhauf, and Paul Gunness (collectively, the “Individual Defendants,” and together with the County, the “County Defendants”), dismissing her claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2018).

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Lisa Lantz appeals a judgment convicting her of one count of conspiring to deliver methamphetamine, two counts of soliciting the delivery of methamphetamine, and one count of maintaining a drug trafficking place.

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Alejandro Gutierrez appeals judgments, entered upon his no-contest pleas, convicting him of child enticement; third-degree sexual assault; strangulation and suffocation; false imprisonment; burglary of a dwelling; and two counts of felony bail jumping, with both the false imprisonment and burglary counts as party to a crime.

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The Estate of Finley Olson, by its special administrator Rachel Olson, and Rachel and William Olson individually (collectively, the Estate) appeal the circuit court order granting American Family Mutual Insurance Company (American Family) summary and declaratory judgment that its insureds, Carrie and Timothy Heller (the Hellers), did not have coverage under their insurance policy through American Family (the Policy) for the claims related to Finley Olson’s death while in the care of the Hellers.

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John Hendon appeals an order granting Bobbie Jo Hendon’s motion to modify child support.

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Angelina Hansen appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury verdict, for criminal contempt of court in relation to her violation of a family court order setting the conditions under which she could exercise physical placement with her children.

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The questions in this appeal arose from a fatal on-the-job accident on a commercial roofing project.

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Marjory Dingwall was charged with three counts of robbery and three counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

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A jury convicted defendant Keenan Rollerson on drug and firearm charges but acquitted him on other drug charges.

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In 2013, Dr. Robert L. Meinders, D.C., Ltd., received a single fax advertisement from United Healthcare Services, Inc., a company with whom Meinders had done business for around seven years.

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Tawanna Ware, et al., v. Best Buy Stores, L.P., Case No.: 20-1641 Officials: ROVNER, HAMILTON, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges. Focus: Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act – Written Warranty – Jurisdiction This appeal raises a ...

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Bukola Lomi Omowole seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the findings of two immigration judges that she is both removable from the United States for having procured an entry visa by fraud and not entitled to asylum or withholding of removal.

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In 1994, Michael Millis was found guilty of several crimes related to a pair of armed robberies in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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We consider in this case whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts certain state-law claims brought by bankruptcy creditors on behalf of a company against its directors and officers and others alleged to have inflated the company’s stock value to conceal the company’s decline and to benefit corporate insiders. We hold that ERISA does not preempt the plaintiffs’ claims against the company’s directors and officers.

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For Gorgi Talevski, living with dementia went from difficult to worse during his stay at Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a state-run nursing facility near his family home in Indiana.

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Employee benefit plans come in many shapes and sizes.

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Weekly Case Digests – September 20, 2021 – September 24, 2021

We review, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 757.91 (2019-20), a Judicial Conduct Panel's (the Panel) findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendation for discipline for the Honorable Scott C. Woldt, a judge for the Winnebago County circuit court.

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Alexandrea C.E. Throndson appeals a judgment of conviction for maintaining a drug trafficking place and bail jumping.

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Percy L. Oliver appeals a judgment of conviction for second-degree reckless homicide.

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Aaron Matthew Oleston appeals a judgment of conviction for five counts of disorderly conduct.

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Jimmy McDaniel was convicted, after a jury trial in the Crawford County Circuit Court, of first-degree reckless homicide and strangulation of Linda Kline.

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