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Kari E. Mravik appeals a judgment of conviction for operating while intoxicated (OWI), as a second offense.

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Rodney R. Baer appeals from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of two counts of repeated sexual assault of the same child and two counts of incest.

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Aston D. Brown appeals a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.

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Deandre E. Tanner appeals judgments convicting him of one count of battery, one count of disorderly conduct and three counts of felony witness intimidation, all charges as a domestic abuse repeater.

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Derek Allen, the new general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, is using his decade of litigation experience to keep AGC members on job sites rather than in courtrooms.

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Wisconsin courts slapped a Minnesota lawyer who has an already lengthy disciplinary history with a second reciprocal punishment on Tuesday. Tracy Eichhorn-Hicks' Wisconsin license suspension resulted from her violation of attorney-ethics rules in Minnesota.

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Levelt Dewarren Musgraves appeals the circuit court’s order denying his motion for sentence credit.

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A jury convicted Kris Zocco of knowingly possessing sixteen recordings of child pornography.

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Dale Chapp, individually and as the personal representative of the Estate of Ruth Chapp, deceased, appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to Colgate-Palmolive Company, the manufacturer of Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder, dismissing Chapp’s claims against it.

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Janet Mueller appeals a circuit court order affirming a decision by the Labor and Industry Review Commission (the Commission), which dismissed Mueller’s application for worker’s compensation temporary disability benefits.

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Ronald L. Collison, pro se, appeals the circuit court’s order affirming the Board of Review’s decision.

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Jose Anthony Guzman appeals from a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdict, convicting him on one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child less than sixteen years old.

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John Doe appeals a judgment convicting him of second-degree sexual assault.

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This case is before us for the second time, on remand from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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A Whitefish Bay law firm is joining the national fight against vaping. Crueger Dickinson filed Wisconsin's first lawsuits against vaping companies Friday.

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A Minnesota attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history will learn Tuesday if he'll receive reciprocal punishment in Wisconsin for a second time.

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Lloyd Johnson brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various employees and officials of the Milwaukee County Medical Health Complex (“MHC”), MHC itself, Milwaukee County, and the County’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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Petitioner-appellant Stacy Haynes challenges three of his convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which imposes steep penalties on a defendant who uses a firearm during a “crime of violence.”

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Malcolm Cobb, Jr., an Indiana prisoner, brought a state-court negligence action against Aramark Correctional Services, LLC (“Aramark”) for failing to clean up a spill in the kitchen at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, causing him to slip and fracture his ankle.

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Two Cook County residents appeal the dismissal of their complaint, which raises a Second Amendment challenge to Cook County’s ban on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines.

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In November 2010 Dallas Green was walking through a Citgo parking lot late at night when an unmarked Chicago police vehicle turned into the lot.

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Jeremy Lockett, an inmate at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (“WSPF”), brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover for alleged violations of his constitutional rights under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, allege a racially discriminatory hiring scheme that has resulted in a lack of Hispanic and Latino line workers at Ford Motor Company’s Chicago assembly plant.

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Consistent with Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979), Indiana statutes have long provided a fast and confidential judicial bypass procedure that is supposed to allow a small fraction of pregnant, unemancipated minors seeking abortions to obtain them without the consent of or notice to their parents, guardians, or custodians.

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Voting is at once an intensely personal act and a choice to participate in the collective process of representative democracy.

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On the evening of February 9, 2017, Michael Barber and his friend Anthony Chipps used a crowbar to break into Dutchman Hunting Supplies in Shipshewana, Indiana, and steal 15 handguns.

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Travis Williams appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of several correctional employees.

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The chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Council said there are no pending open records requests for the committee as of Friday.

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As fewer projects from outside committees and agencies come to the Wisconsin Judicial Council, its members are debating ways to keep the committee relevant.

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Weekly Case Digests – September 16, 2019 – September 20, 2019

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