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Oct 3, 2022

Fourth Amendment Violation – Sale of Seized Property

A person arrested in Chicago can take some property into jail but must surrender other property, including cell phones.

Oct 3, 2022

4th Amendment Violation – Search & Seizure Religious Accommodations

West is confined at Wisconsin’s Green Bay Correctional Institution where he must undergo strip searches by prison staff on regular occasions.

Oct 3, 2022

Employment – Retaliation

Scaife worked as a Human Resources Classifier at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis.

Oct 1, 2022

Insurance Claim – Workers’ compensation

Danny Cope was injured on a job site in Kentucky and filed a workers’ compensation claim.

Oct 1, 2022

Civil Procedure-Mootness

Article III of the Constitution limits federal courts to deciding live Cases or Controversies.

Mar 25, 2022

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Weekly Case Digests – March 21, 2022 - March 25, 2022

Mar 24, 2022

Termination of Parental Rights

Jessica appeals from an order terminating her parental rights (TPR) to her daughter, and an order denying her motion for postdispositional relief.

Mar 24, 2022

Abuse of Discretion – Evidentiary Hearing

Willie Allison appeals a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of three counts of human trafficking, as a repeater; one count of second-degree reckless injury, as a repeater; two counts of delivering three grams or less of heroin, as a second or subsequent offense, with one count as a party to a crime; and one count of maintaining a drug trafficking place, as a second or subse[...]

Mar 24, 2022

Court Error – Postconviction Motion Denied

Robert C. Stryker, pro se, appeals a judgment of conviction for first-degree sexual assault of a child and an order denying his motion for postconviction relief.

Mar 24, 2022

Divorce – Child Placement Order

Julie C. Valadez appeals from a judgment of divorce terminating her marriage to her former husband, Ricardo Valadez.

Mar 24, 2022

Sentence Credit

Tanya M. Liedke appeals from an order denying her motion for correction of sentence credit.

Mar 24, 2022

Plea Withdrawal – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Daimon Von Jackson, Jr. appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after his no contest plea to second-degree reckless homicide as a repeater with the use of a dangerous weapon contrary to WIS. STAT. §§ 940.06(1) (2013-14),1 939.62(1)(c), and 939.63(1)(b) (hereinafter “second-degree reckless homicide”), and from an order denying his postconviction motion seeking to withdraw his plea.

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