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Leonid Burlaka, Timothy Keuken, Travis Frischmann, and Roger Robinson are truck drivers who brought individual, collective, and class action claims against Contract Transport Services (CTS), their former employer, for failing to provide overtime pay in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which requires overtime pay for any employee who works more than forty hours in a workweek.

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To keep his car dealership afloat, Arthur Friedman secured loans for fake buyers of a phony inventory of cars.

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This case is about the plaintiffs’ quest to halt construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park.

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Without permission from Epic Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (“TCS”) downloaded, from 2012 to 2014, thousands of documents containing Epic’s confidential information and trade secrets.

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Clayton Waagner filed a second collateral attack on his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

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On consideration of plaintiff-appellant’s petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc, filed on June 16, 2020, a majority of the panel voted to deny rehearing.

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Appellee the United States asks this court to summarily affirm the district court’s dismissal of appellant Tim Jon Semmerling’s complaint because his appellate brief does not assert any error in the district court’s decision.

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A jury convicted Blair Cook of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance (marijuana) in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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The False Claims Act allows the United States government to dismiss a relator’s qui tam suit over the relator’s objection with notice and opportunity for a hearing.

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Smart Oil, LLC agreed to sell thirty parcels of land with gas stations and convenience stores to DW Mazel, LLC (“DWM”).

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Weekly Case Digests – October 5, 2020 – October 9, 2020

Greg Douglas Griswold appeals a circuit court judgment finding him guilty of violating a Village of Muscoda ordinance that provides: “No person may violate any rules or regulations that have been enacted by the Librarian or the Library Board.”

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R.J. was involuntary committed for treatment for six months pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 51.20, and he was subsequently recommitted for a period of one year.

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During the course of a traffic stop, Catherine Large was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated (“OWI”), and a sample of her blood was later drawn for chemical testing.

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William Heaney appeals from a judgment dismissing his small claims replevin action seeking the recovery of three oil portraits hanging in the lobby of the “Oshkosh Northwestern Building,” a building owned by Oshkosh Business Center III, LLC. He asserts the circuit court erred in refusing to admit as evidence at the trial authorizations signed by his cousin and his cousin’s widow and erred in ultimately concluding he had not met his burden of proof to establish ownership of the portraits.

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Richard L. Austin, Jr., appeals from an order finding him in contempt for lack of child support, sentencing him to forty-five days in jail.

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The circuit court denied Russ Darrow Group, Inc.’s (Darrow) motion for sanctions and damages against Harry B. Mains (Mains) as being untimely under WIS. STAT. §§ 802.05 and 895.044 (2017-18).

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On May 31, 2014, twelve-year-old Morgan Geyser, with the aid of twelve-year-old Anissa Weier, repeatedly stabbed her friend, the twelve-year-old victim in this case.

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Following a jury trial, Frederick Ziesmer was convicted of repeated sexual assault of the same child.

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This matter arises from a protracted dispute concerning a trust established by Dianne and Wayne L. Lautenbach.

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In response to a federal court decision, the Town of Sanborn (the “Town”) decided in 2007 to remove from its property tax rolls all land belonging to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians (the “Bad River Band”) and its members.

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Aaron Brace applied for Social Security disability benefits based on a number of chronic conditions—primarily back and neck pain due to degenerative disc disease.

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Sevon Thomas found himself charged with possessing a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime after he agreed to sell methamphetamine to a government cooperator.

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Reginald Pittman attempted suicide at the Madison County jail in 2007. Although the attempt failed, it left him in a vegetative state.

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Anthony Machicote is a Wisconsin inmate who had a surgery that left him in extreme pain necessitating strong medication at regular intervals.

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Gregory Greene pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(1), 2252A(b)(1), and received a within‐guidelines prison sentence and a life term of supervised release.

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Under immigration law, it can make a big difference whether a non-citizen entered the United States legally or not.

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Orlando Medina was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.

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On July 23, 2010, Shan Fieldman climbed into a truck in a Walmart parking lot and told a hitman that he wanted his ex-wife and her boyfriend killed.

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Many years ago, a class of plaintiffs sued the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, alleging that the Clerk was engaging in unlawful political patronage in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

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