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Dawn Prado was involved in a fatal car crash, and while she was unconscious, law enforcement directed that a sample of her blood be drawn for chemical testing.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and other attorneys general plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service that could affect the November election.

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What appears at first blush as a simple conviction for operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) without the required state-issued license in fact involves a more complicated (and as far as we can determine, unaddressed) question lying at the intersection of state and federal licensing requirements.

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Coolidge A L.L.C. and Coolidge B L.L.C. (hereinafter, collectively “Coolidge”) appeal from orders granting summary judgment in favor of the City of Waukesha and the City’s contractor, D.F. Tomasini Contractors, Inc., and dismissing the property damage claims brought by Coolidge arising from a public works project commissioned by the City and completed by Tomasini.

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Michael Suhs and his minor daughter, Megan Suhs, (collectively, “Suhs”) appeal an order dismissing their medical negligence and loss of society and companionship claims against Mark A. Gardon, M.D., Proassurance Casualty Company, Baycare Clinic, LLP - Neurological Surgeons, and the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (collectively, “Gardon”).

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Chad Kessler appeals a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of two counts of criminal damage to property and one count each of fleeing or eluding an officer, burglary of a building or dwelling, operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent (OMVWOC), and misdemeanor theft.

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Russell Wilson appeals a judgment of conviction for repeated sexual assault of a child and an order denying his postsentencing motion for plea withdrawal.

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Amber Michelizzi appeals an order providing Charles Smiley with shared legal custody and increased physical placement of their children.

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Rodney Lass appeals a judgment entered on jury verdicts convicting him of seven felonies and two misdemeanors, all as domestic abuse violations.

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Christann Spannraft, pro se, appeals her judgments of conviction for operating while intoxicated (OWI), first offense, and operating without required lamps lighted.

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Yeison Meza Morales is a native and citizen of Mexico who entered the United States without inspection as a child.

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Jeremy Wade hoped to reacquaint himself with a girl he knew in high school so he could ask her for a date.

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Maria Dijamco came to the United States from the Philippines and sought lawful status to stay in the country through her mother who had a green card.

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Lisa Purtue was fired from her job as a Wisconsin correctional officer for falsely claiming that a prisoner hit her with an empty snack cake box that he threw from his cell.

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is remanding for trial a Wisconsin inmate's pro se lawsuit over his pain medication management. The judges found the Western District of Wisconsin court was wrong to grant summary judgment to a nurse who could be found deliberately indifferent to the inmate's suffering.

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Elizabeth Ruckelshaus appeals the district court’s determination that Indiana’s statute of limitations bars her legal malpractice claim.

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When a prison official knows that an inmate faces a substantial risk of serious harm, the Eighth Amendment requires that official to take reasonable measures to abate the risk.

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David Daugherty, an administrative law judge hearing disability-benefits applications for the Social Security Administration, supplemented his salary by taking bribes.

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The Federal Reporter is replete with examples of prisoners losing cases because they missed litigation deadlines and courts extended little forgiveness.

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This appeal represents the culmination of more than ten years of litigation between a group of neighbors in Elkhart, Indiana and a nearby wood recycling facility.

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David Day, Jr., was indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from his participation in a fraudulent “credit repair” scheme operating in Indianapolis.

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Over a decade ago, the district court (then Chief Judge McCuskey) sentenced Gene Sutton to his then statutory minimum 15 years’ imprisonment for distributing cocaine base (“crack”) and carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime.

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During Antonio Ramirez’s 2001 criminal trial in Wisconsin state court, the prevailing interpretation of the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause was set forth in Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56 (1980).

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When Tyrus McNair was sentenced in 2003 for a serious drug crime, the district court calculated his range under the Sentencing Guidelines at 324 to 405 months and sentenced him to 360 months.

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Organized amateur hockey leagues in the United States come under the purview of USA Hockey, Inc., which is subject to the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, 36 U.S.C. §§ 220501–43.

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After pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine, Ryan Patton was sentenced to 76 months’ imprisonment.

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AbbVie Inc. made a tender offer to repurchase as much as $7.5 billion of its outstanding shares.

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Weekly Case Digests – August 10, 2020 – August 14, 2020

For some of the newest lawyers in Wisconsin, graduation didn’t come with the pomp and circumstance one might expect.

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Three utility companies have the right to intervene in a lawsuit over a proposed $500 million high-voltage power line in southwestern Wisconsin, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday.

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