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In 1963 the Supreme Court announced that the prosecution team has a duty under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to turn over material, exculpatory evidence to criminal defendants.

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The Board of Forensic Document Examiners brought a defamation action alleging reputational harm from an article published in an American Bar Association law journal.

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The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701–21, establishes a framework under which tribes may conduct gambling on land held in trust for their use.

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Pearl Carter moved to voluntarily dismiss the complaint that she had filed against Michael Morelli, Jeffrey Henderson, and the City of Alton.

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Linno Llenos died engaging in an act known as autoerotic asphyxiation.

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Mehdi Abdollahzadeh opened a credit-card account with MBNA America Bank in 1998 and used it to make various personal, family, and household purchases.

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Mexico asked the United States to extradite appellant Rodolfo Deiby Burgos Noeller for the 2015 murder of Rosa Lorena Jacobo Carrillo in Mexico City.

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Weekly Case Digests – May 27, 2019 – May 31, 2019

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The Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to enforce covered arbitration agreements according to their terms. See 9 U. S. C. §2. In Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp., 559 U. S. 662 (2010), we held that a court may not compel arbitration on a classwide basis when an agreement is “silent” on the availability of such arbitration.

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The petitioner, Maple Grove Country Club, Inc., seeks review of an unpublished, per curiam decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order that dismissed the Country Club's inverse condemnation claim against Maple Grove Estates Sanitary District.

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Beau Ellenbecker appeals a circuit court order filed on August 16, 2018 (“the August 16 order”), denying his motion to reopen this small claims action or to reconsider the court’s grant of a June 19, 2018 writ of replevin and default judgment in favor of Ashley Thompson (“the June 19 judgment”).

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David Curtis and Maurice Goodwin (whom I will sometimes refer to collectively as “the tenants”) appeal a money judgment entered by the Dane County Circuit Court in favor of their former landlord, Butler Plaza, LLC.

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In this small claims action, landlord Ray Peterson appeals the circuit court’s award of a money judgment to tenant Julie Chuilli.

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Derrick Brown, pro se, appeals a circuit court order that affirmed a prison disciplinary decision.

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Michael A. and Kathryn L. Hecker appeal from a judgment of foreclosure entered in favor of Deutsche Bank Trust Company (the Bank).

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Mose Coffee appeals from judgments of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), second offense, and possession of THC with intent to deliver.

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Eric D. Conner, pro se, appeals a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of one count of second-degree sexual assault of one child and three counts of third-degree sexual assault of another child.

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Valaria Brooks appeals pro se from an order for a foreclosure judgment and a money judgment in favor of Kilbourn Woods Homeowners Association, Inc. (“the Association”).

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Carrie Donahue appeals from judgments convicting her of being party to the crime of causing mental harm to a child, false imprisonment, child abuse and child neglect.

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We accepted the interlocutory appeal of Kathryn Kershaw and The Lord’s Highlands, Inc., to determine if the circuit court erred in ordering, after a trial to the court, that the two properties at issue in this case be sold to a third party.

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L.F.H., Sr., (L.F.H.) appeals an order terminating his parental rights to his son, Leon.

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Steven Robert Sharpe appeals the circuit court’s order dismissing his small claims action for money damages against the City of West Allis and Shelly Kerwin, a plan reviewer for West Allis.

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Joel Jahnke appeals from an amended judgment of conviction for second-degree sexual assault of a child, exposing genitals to a child, and causing a child between the ages of thirteen and eighteen to view sexual activity.

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Gene Frederickson Trucking and Excavating, Inc. (“Frederickson”) appeals a judgment dismissing, for failure to state a claim, its civil conspiracy and “prima facie tort” claims against various defendants associated with Wagner 22, LLC (“Wagner 22” and, collectively with the other defendants, the “Wagner Group”).

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William Bransford, pro se, appeals from an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2017-18) postconviction motion without a hearing.

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Carlin Club Properties, LLC (“Carlin Club”) appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of Carlin Lake Association, Inc. (“the Association”) and seven individual owners of riparian property on Carlin Lake (“the Landowners”).

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Gianni Bozzacchi appeals from an order denying his motion for relief from an April 2009 order that required him to mortgage his home.

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When the state wants to encourage suspects, defendants, or incarcerated offenders to admit guilt, it has many tools at its disposal.

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A jury convicted Maria Moreno of one count of conspiring with others with the intent to distribute narcotics and two counts of knowingly using a telephone in furtherance of the conspiracy.

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A jury found Surgery Center at 900 North Michigan Avenue, LLC (“Surgery Center”) liable in a medical malpractice action for $5.17 million.

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