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Tamara D. Tellock appeals the judgment entered by the Milwaukee County Circuit Court reinstating a loan modification agreement Tellock entered into with US Bank.
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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Leroy Stanton, Jr. appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of second-degree sexual assault and one count of substantial battery.
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Read More »State DOJ obtains $75K judgment for asbestos violations
The companies involved with the construction of a U-Haul center in Oshkosh must pay $75,000 for violating Wisconsin's asbestos laws.
Read More »Kenosha attorney faced with license revocation for latest misconduct
A Kenosha attorney may see his law license revoked for a second complaint of misconduct filed by the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
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Read More »Sufficiency of Evidence
These appeals stem from an action brought in 2010 by Nathson Fields, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors.
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Read More »Court Error – Summary Judgment
This is a case of a disgruntled entrepreneur trying to spin her business difficulties into constitutional claims.
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Read More »Sentencing Guidelines – Compassionate Release
Federal judges have long been able to release prisoners for compassionate reasons such as terminal illness.
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Read More »Sufficiency of Evidence – Sentencing
Paul Elmer owned and operated multiple healthcare-related companies including Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals.
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Read More »Immigration – Appellate Filling Fee
Fadeel Shuhaiber is confined to a wheelchair. Following the district court’s dismissal of claims he brought against the Illinois Department of Corrections under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act, Shuhaiber appealed and, based on his impoverished status, sought permission to proceed on appeal without prepaying the requisite filing fee.
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Read More »Sentencing Guidelines – Supervised Release
Devin Dawson violated the conditions of his supervised release after his release from prison.
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Read More »Punitive Damages
Without permission from Epic Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (“TCS”) downloaded, from 2012 to 2014, thousands of documents containing Epic’s confidential information and trade secrets.
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Read More »Plea & Sentencing – Alford Plea
Adel Daoud pressed the button to detonate a bomb that would have killed hundreds of innocent people in the name of Islam.
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Read More »Plea & Sentencing – Waiver of Counsel
Kurt Johnson elected to represent himself at trial on federal fraud charges.
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Read More »Order Amending Opinion
It is ORDERED that the opinion in this case issued October 21, 2020, is amended as follows: In the first line of the first sentence of the first paragraph under “I. BACKGROUND” on page two, strike “three counts” and replace that phrase with “one count”.
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Read More »Class Action Fairness Action Violation – Article III Standing
As its name suggests, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA” or “the Act”) protects a person’s privacy interests in his biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, retina and iris scans, hand scans, and facial geometry.
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Read More »Milwaukee County hopeful for strong post-pandemic comeback for courts
Participants in Milwaukee County’s criminal justice system believe the courts will come back from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than it was before.
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Read More »Weekly Case Digests – January 18, 2021 – January 22, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – January 18, 2021 – January 22, 2021
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Read More »Drunken man’s right to bear arms at the core of case in front of state Supreme Court
An intoxicated man's right to bear arms is at the core of a case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday.
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Read More »$2.5M settlement reached in genetic-testing scheme
A California company has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to resolve allegations that it had paid a marketing company to refer it genetic testing for Wisconsin nursing-home patients.
Read More »State Supreme Court clarifies child-testimony rules in unanimous opinion
The Wisconsin Supreme Court clarified child-testimony rules in a unanimous opinion involving a man convicted of sexually assaulting three children.
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Read More »Attorney Disciplinary Hearing
This disciplinary matter comes to the court on Attorney Scholz's appeal of a report and recommendation filed by Referee Kim M. Peterson.
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Read More »Constitutionality – Operation of Motor Vehicle
Diane Tomko, pro se, appeals an order of the Dodge County Circuit Court finding her guilty of operating a motor vehicle without insurance, operating a motor vehicle without registration, operating a motor vehicle without an operator’s license, and resisting an officer.
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Read More »Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Chester J. Mass appeals from a judgment convicting him of first-degree intentional homicide, and an order denying his postconviction motion seeking a new trial on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel.
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Read More »Sentence Modification
Jack B. Gramza appeals an order of the circuit court denying his request for sentence modification upon his successful completion of the Substance Abuse Program (SAP).
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Read More »Damages and Attorney’s Fees
Bee Moua appeals a judgment that awarded Elite Construction Custom Homes of Appleton, LLC, $8,685 in damages and $6,752.50 in attorney fees and costs.
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Read More »Abuse of Discretion – Divorce Proceedings
Patrick Brookshaw appeals a judgment of divorce.
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Read More »Randolph-Sheppard Act Violation – Arbitration
The Randolph-Sheppard Act provides economic opportunities by granting blind persons priority to operate vending facilities at certain government properties.
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Read More »Fee Award – Attorney’s Fees
Plaintiffs Tai Matlin and James Waring have spent seventeen years embroiled in disputes related to the intellectual property claims at issue in this case.
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Read More »Sentencing Guidelines
This appeal presents several related issues about how federal judges should decide whether sentences in federal prosecutions should run consecutively to or concurrently with separate sentences in unrelated state prosecutions.
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Read More »Weekly Case Digests – January 11, 2021 – January 15, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – January 11, 2021 – January 15, 2021
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