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Charles Neevel was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Under the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), a state agency contemplating a “major action[] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment” must prepare and publish an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): a detailed report evaluating potential environmental effects.

For over thirty years, Island Camping, Inc. has operated a commercial campground on an approximately twenty-acre narrow strip of land along the Mississippi River.

Michael Anthony Turner, pro se, appeals the circuit court’s order dismissing his petition for a writ of certiorari.

This case involves open land, currently in a natural state, that was sold by the same seller twice.

S.H. appeals from orders entered in two cases, now consolidated on appeal, terminating his parental rights to his two children on the grounds of the continuing denial of his periods of physical placement under WIS. STAT. § 48.415(4).

Larry A. Brown appeals his judgment of conviction with regard to his sentence, specifically relating to the trial court’s denial of his motion to expunge the conviction from his record.

Jeffrey Lemont Lee appeals his judgment of conviction for aggravated battery, substantial battery, disorderly conduct with the use of a dangerous weapon, and felony bail jumping, all with domestic abuse assessments and as a habitual offender.

Guillermo Mendoza appeals a judgment convicting him of incest and first-degree sexual assault of a child.

Salar Zangana appeals from a judgment of conviction for misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct and from orders of the trial court denying his motion for postconviction relief and his motion for reconsideration.

Lawrence Griffin, Jr. appeals his judgment of conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon.

Juan Castillo appeals a judgment convicting him of one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child (sexual contact with a person under the age of thirteen).

Michael James Brehm appeals a judgment entered after a guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon and an order denying postconviction relief.

David Wayne Ross appeals his judgment of conviction for two counts of second-degree sexual assault.

Joe Meier, pro se, appeals from an order denying reconsideration of the denial of his motion to vacate a default judgment.

Travis appeals from an order for involuntary commitment under WIS. STAT. ch. 51.

Jeremy Schenck produced child pornography.

Dragan Kaplarevic filed for disability insurance benefits in December 2012, alleging that he became disabled on August 1, 2012.

Plaintiff Linda Bergal brought this malpractice case against her attorney Ben Roth, his law firm, and accountant Joseph Sanders.

Defendants Champion Petfoods USA Inc. and Champion Petfoods LP (collectively, “Champion”) produce dog food that they market as biologically appropriate, containing fresh regional ingredients, and never outsourced.

Jacob Wessel had a history of mental issues. On August 11, 2016, he allegedly raised a gun toward a police officer.

Petitioner Victor Mejia-Padilla (“Mejia”) seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the denial of his statutory motion to reopen his deportation proceeding, which he filed more than six years after that proceeding closed.

Statutory interpretation is familiar territory for federal courts, and this appeal requires us to resolve a dispute over the scope of a statutory credit—taken against excise fuel taxes—that Congress made available to producers of “alternative fuel mixtures.”

Prairie Rivers Network is an Illinois non-profit organization that advocates for clean water and healthy rivers.

“Better late than never” is not a phrase typically heard in a federal courthouse.

In August 2016 Millicent Nartey was admitted to a hospital where she suffered a stroke and eventually passed away.

StarNet Insurance Company filed suit in diversity seeking a declaratory judgment specifying that the terms of a workers’ compensation and employers liability policy it issued to P.S. Demolition, Inc. obligate it to pay nothing more for a workplace injury than the amounts that Illinois workers’ compensation law requires P.S. Demolition to pay its injured employees.

Adrian Thomas sued several prison officials at Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois alleging they violated the Eighth Amendment by restricting him for two months to a cell with feces on the walls, a mattress covered in human waste, a bunk bed with a hundred dead flies, and inadequate plumbing that caused him to develop a rash.

This insurance dispute stems from Robert Shockley, Jr., filing a civil complaint in Illinois state court.

Czeslaw Parzych, a Polish citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was twice convicted of burglary in Illinois, leading the Department of Homeland Security to begin removal proceedings.