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Global Water Center II, LLC, engaged Catcon, Inc. to act as general contractor for a renovation project at a building owned by Global.

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James Delglyn, pro se, appeals an order of the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of Paulino Do Rego Barros, Jr. and Equifax Information Systems, LLC (collectively “Equifax”).

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George E. Savage appeals the judgment of conviction, following his guilty plea to one count of violation of the sex offender registry statute.

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Victoria Southern and Allstate Insurance Company (collectively Allstate) appeal the judgment in this civil negligence action arising from an accident between a car driven by Southern and a double semi-trailer truck that Harry Verkler was operating.

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Robert Dequan Brown entered into a plea agreement with the State and pled guilty to two drug-related felonies and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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Michael L. Winfield appeals judgments entered after he pled guilty to four felonies: second-degree recklessly endangering safety, operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent, fleeing an officer, and burglary as a party to a crime.

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Kaprisha E. Greer appeals from her judgment of conviction after a jury convicted her of disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse assessment.

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M.M.B. appeals from orders terminating his parental rights to M.L.H. and J.L.H. and from orders denying his postdisposition motion.

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Edward L. Body, Sr., appeals from a judgment and order revoking his probation for the offense of disorderly conduct and sentencing him to one year in jail.

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Jacqueline Nooyen, individually and as special administrator of the Estate of Norbert Nooyen, appeals a grant of summary judgment that dismissed her claims against Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Madison Gas and Electric Company, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, and Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (collectively, “the Utilities”) for violations of the safe place statute, WIS. STAT. § 101.11 (2015-16).

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Eric A. Nielsen, Vicky A. Nielsen, Vernon R. Nelson, and Priscilla Kay Aldon Nelson (“the Homeowners”) appeal an order denying their action for certiorari relief and affirming the decision of the Walworth County Board of Adjustment.

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This dispute is about an “as is” sale of an eighteen-year-old Ford Ranger truck with 178,000 miles.

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Linda Veerkamp, pro se, appeals a judgment requiring her to pay her former attorneys, Menn Law Firm, LTD, $44,000 in attorney fees and $5395.39 in costs.

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Matthew LaBrec brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a number of Wisconsin Department of Corrections employees, alleging that they violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.

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Edward Youngman was placed on medical leave from his job with the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center after he informed his supervisor that he could no longer work shifts in the facility’s control room.

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A New York owner of a fast-food property in Illinois, which was rented by an Arizona tenant, sold the property to buyers in California. Just after the sale, however, the tenant declared bankruptcy and never paid a nickel in rent to its new landlord.

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Keith Melvin hoped to obtain a copy of his presentence investigation report before his sentencing hearing.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. (“FLSA”), requires employers to pay overtime wages to certain employees, see id. §§ 207(a), 213.

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Albert Dowthard pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g).

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Jorge Baez-Sanchez, a citizen of Mexico, is removable as a criminal alien. His conviction for aggravated battery of a police officer renders him inadmissible.

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Ismael Rangel-Rodriguez and Eleazar Hernandez-Perdomo are both Mexican citizens who have never been lawfully admitted to the United States.

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Police found over 80 grams of red methamphetamine in a car.

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Neal Preston brought this putative class action in which he claimed that Midland Credit Management, Inc. (“Midland”), had sent him a collection letter that violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692–1692p.

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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., requires the collector of a consumer debt to send the consumer-debtor a written notice containing, among other information, “the name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed.” § 1692g(a)(2).

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Weekly Case Digests – February 10, 2020 – February 14, 2020

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In Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 573 U. S. 409 (2014), we held that “[t]o state a claim for breach of the duty of prudence” imposed on plan fiduciaries by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) “on the basis of inside information, a plaintiff must plausibly allege an alternative action that the defendant could have taken that would have been consistent with the securities laws and that a prudent fiduciary in the same circumstances would not have viewed as more likely to harm the fund than to help it.” Id., at 428.

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Under the Bankruptcy Code, filing a petition for bankruptcy automatically “operates as a stay” of creditors’ debt collection efforts outside the umbrella of the bankruptcy case. 11 U. S. C. §362(a).

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Lunda Construction Company (Lunda) alleges that Veritas Steel, LLC (Veritas), and third-party defendants Atlas Holdings, LLC (Atlas), and Bridge Fabrication Holdings, LLC, took unfair advantage of PDM Bridge, LLC's (PDM) loan defaults, "with the intent to gain ownership of PDM's lucrative steel fabrication business for grossly inadequate consideration through a secretive, unlawful and fraudulent process designed to render PDM an empty shell with no assets remaining to satisfy PDM's eight-figure liability to Lunda."

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Sterling Olsen appeals a judgment of conviction for armed robbery as a party to the crime and an order denying postconviction relief.

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that corrections were made to the above captioned opinion (footnote 11 on page 23 has been removed, and the publication recommendation on page 25 has been changed), which was released on November 27, 2019.

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