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Contractual Damages – Individual Privilege
Creation Supply, Inc., bought insurance from Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast. Selective denied coverage, and Creation sued for breach of contract and won.
Wrongful Termination – NLRB Ruling – Contempt
Parties ignore court orders at their peril.
Contracts- Employment Law
Plaintiff Ross worked as a sales representative for defendant First Financial Corporate Services, Inc. until January 2018.
Postconviction Motion – Sentence Reduction
Appellant Miedzianowski is serving a life sentence for leading a criminal conspiracy while he was also working as a Chicago police officer.
Postconviction Motion – Evidentiary Burden
The court of appeals affirmed the circuit court's judgment of conviction for first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault, and false imprisonment, and its denial of Thomas's postconviction motion.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Breeden appeals from a judgment convicting him of second-degree reckless endangerment, battery, and disorderly conduct (each as an act of domestic abuse), and from an order denying his postconviction motion.
Plain Error – Mental Commitment
Catherine appeals two orders entered under WIS. STAT. ch. 51: one recommitting her for twelve months, and another requiring the involuntary administration of medication and treatment.
Bias Statements by Court
Graham Stowe, who is subject to an NGI commitment (“not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect), appeals from an order denying his petition for conditional release.
4th Amendment Violation – Immunity
One day in April 2020, Amanda Pierner-Lytge, a private security office and Second Amendment supporter, strapped a rifle to her back and walked to a local park.
Suppression of Statements – Miranda Rights
Olivas Bailon accompanied a friend on a road trip from Aurora, Illinois to Chicago for a drug transaction.
Sentencing – Sufficiency of Evidence
Driving alone in Indianapolis, Richardson committed a traffic violation and was stopped by police.
Immigration – Jurisdiction – 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i)
Britkovyy is a Ukrainian citizen who hopes to become a lawful permanent resident of the United States.
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Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property
