Sentencing – Conditions of Supervised Release
Kenneth Raney appeals for the second time the district court’s decision to impose an additional two‐year term of supervised release after revoking his previous release term.
Quantum Meruit – Attorney’s Fees
Dustan Dobbs hired Appellees George McLaughlin, John Gehlhausen, and Anthony Argeros as his attorneys on a contingency fee basis.
8th Amendment Violation – 1st Amendment violation
Seyon Haywood, formerly an inmate at Illinois’s Shawnee Correctional Center, accused his auto mechanics teacher of attacking him.
Negligence
Hannah Piotrowski was injured after slipping on two small rocks in the parking lot of a Menard store.
Retaliatory Termination – Sexual Harassment – Damages
Maria Gracia sued her employer, SigmaTron, International, Inc., for sexual harassment and for terminating her in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment.
Weekly Case Digests — Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2016
7th Circuit Digests 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: First American Bank v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al Case No.: 16-1122 Officials: BAUER, POSNER, and KANNE, Circuit Judges Focus: Mertiless Suit “In 2013 an Illinois lawyer named David M. Goodson received an email from a person who represented himself or herself to […]
Child Custody
This is an ongoing dispute over physical placement of two minor children born in 2003 and 2005, between the children’s mother, Lori Erickson, and the children’s adjudicated father, Steven Coons.
Damages – Wisconsin Consumer Act
Bernard Seidling appeals an order awarding Dori Stepan compensatory damages, punitive damages, and actual attorney fees and costs on her counterclaim alleging abuse of process and Wisconsin Consumer Act violations.
Voluntary Payment Doctrine – Estoppel
The City of Milwaukee (the City) appeals a judgment entered against it and in favor of DJK 59 LLC, JBC 59 LLC, Juneau Village II Limited Partnership, Juneau Village Shopping Center LLC, and 829 Cass LLC (collectively, DJK) in the amount of $614,336.49 plus statutory costs.
Rent Adjustments
Va’Na Barki, pro se, appeals a judgment of the circuit court dismissing her counterclaim against the Milwaukee City Housing Authority.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Anthony Rodriguez was convicted of two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child following a jury trial in the State of Illinois in 1997.
Legal News
- Wisconsin leads 26 Governors to strengthen state and tribal child support enforcement act
- Wisconsin man charged with fleeing to Ireland to avoid prison term for Capitol riot role
- Wisconsin Supreme Court reveals September oral arguments calendar
- New Jersey man sentenced for series of violent assaults on members of the Orthodox Jewish Community
- Milwaukee County District Attorney, UWM police address Jewish threats
- With GOP convention over, Milwaukee weighs the benefits of hosting political rivals
- Secret Service head resigns as Congress formally investigates
- Milwaukee Police Department issues statement regarding video release policy
- GOP convention sets the stage for the Democratic convention in Chicago, activists and police say
- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
- 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
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