Weekly Case Digests – May 4, 2020 – May 8, 2020
Weekly Case Digests – May 4, 2020 – May 8, 2020
Sentencing Guidelines and Plain Error
In July 2016, police officers in Dallas, Texas, received a tip about a suspicious car parked outside of a house in the Dallas area.
Title VII Violation
Entertainment Studios Network (ESN), an African-American-owned television-network operator, sought to have cable television conglomerate Comcast Corporation carry its channels.
Due Process Violation
This case is about Kansas’s treatment of a criminal defendant’s insanity claim.
Copyright Infringement – Sovereign Immunity
In 1996, a marine salvage company named Intersal, Inc., discovered the shipwreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge off the North Carolina coast.
Statutory Interpretation – Immigration and Nationality Act – Limited Review Provision
The Immigration and Nationality Act provides for judicial review of a final Government order directing the removal of an alien from this country.
Termination of Parental Rights
“John” appeals from an order involuntarily terminating his parental rights to “Adam” and from an order denying his postdispositional claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
TCPA Violation
After a bench trial that lasted five weeks and produced 475 typed pages of findings, a district judge concluded that DISH Network and its agents committed more than 65 million violations of telemarketing statutes and regulations. 256 F. Supp. 3d 810 (C.D. Ill. 2017) (183 printed pages).
Sentencing Guidelines – Resentencing
John Worman reacted to losing his job and a business opportunity by mailing a pipe bomb to his former supervisor.
Claim Splitting Ban
This case is the second to arise out of an ill-fated relationship between Rexing Quality Eggs and Rembrandt Enterprises, Inc.
8th Amendment & 14th Amendment Violation
Darryl Turner suffered a broken nose during an altercation with another inmate while in pre-trial detention at the Cook County Jail.
FDCPA Violation
When Nichole Richards defaulted on her car loan, her lender hired PAR, Inc., to repossess the vehicle. PAR subcontracted with Lawrence Towing to carry out the repossession.
Legal News
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
- RNC Final Day: Trump accepts GOP Nomination
- Wisconsin officials intervene in Planned Parenthood action
- 7th Circuit adopts modifications to Rules 31, 34, 40, 47 and 60
- MPD issues statement on outside agency officer assignments
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