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The State appeals a circuit court judgment dismissing a criminal complaint charging Keith Hoffman with stalking under WIS. STAT. § 940.32(2) (2019-20).

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This case involves a single automobile liability policy issued by Wisconsin Mutual Insurance Company to Susan Noble and a dispute over the meaning of a “drive other cars” exclusion in the policy, under which coverage is excluded for vehicles not listed in the policy that are “available for” “the regular use of a relative” of the insured.

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E.A.B., Jr. appeals from an order of the circuit court extending his involuntary commitment and also challenges the order for involuntary medication and treatment.

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L.M. appeals the order of the trial court terminating her parental rights to A.S.M. L.M. failed to appear at the initial hearing on the termination of parental rights petition and a default judgment was entered.

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Lauren appeals from an order extending her involuntary commitment under WIS. STAT. ch. 51 and an order for involuntary medication and treatment.

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Kristine Buttke appeals from a conviction for causing mental harm to a child.

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Club Unique Improvement Corporation (Club Unique or the Club) appeals from an order of the circuit court denying its petition for judicial review of a decision from an administrative law judge (ALJ).

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Jacob Zwiefelhofer appeals from an amended judgment of conviction that removed his eligibility for expungement.

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Michael L. Moss appeals the trial court’s order for dismissal on the pleadings regarding Moss’s claims against Milwaukee County and its insurer, Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Company (collectively “the County”).

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Darnell J. Mungon appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying postconviction relief. Mungon argues that his trial counsel was ineffective and that the trial court erred when it excluded evidence that the victim in this case was not wearing his seat belt.

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The State appeals from Eric Overvig’s judgment of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), third offense.

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In this complex ERISA case, James Smith sued fiduciaries of the retirement plan offered by his former employer, Triad Manufacturing, Inc., for alleged financial misconduct.

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Christopher Harris faced federal drug charges. Counsel advised him that his two prior Indiana cocaine convictions were predicate “felony drug offenses” and could result in a mandatory life sentence.

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Industrial-supply company W.W. Grainger was the victim of a series of cyberattacks against its computer systems in 2016.

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Elston Stevenson possessed a firearm as a felon, and as an armed career criminal he received an enhanced sentence.

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Our jurisdiction over this interlocutory appeal turns on a police dashcam video that captured police officer Ryan McDonough’s arrest of Joseph Ferguson, including the moment he tased Ferguson.

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The district court entered an injunction that prohibits officials from enforcing these provisions of Indiana’s law...

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Weekly Case Digests – November 1, 2021 - November 5, 2021

We review the report and recommendation of Referee Jean A. DiMotto that Attorney Robert B. Moodie's petition for reinstatement of his license to practice law in Wisconsin be granted.

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Plaintiff Adam Ramos was injured while delivering products to Trail Ridge Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Timber Creek Pizza which at the time occupied a building leased from Ronald Luepke.

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Samuel Mattioli appeals a judgment of conviction and an order denying his postconviction motion.

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Dr. Sabina Leigh Burton appeals a circuit court order affirming, on judicial review under WIS. STAT. ch. 227, the decision of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (the Board) terminating her employment as a tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWPL).

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Jesus M. Medina Fernandez appeals judgments of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree sexual assault by use of a dangerous weapon and two counts of second-degree sexual assault.

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Erik A. Andrade appeals the circuit court order upholding the decision of the City of Milwaukee Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (the Board) to discharge him from service as an officer with the Milwaukee Police Department.

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Patrick D. Fowler appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

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Nugene A. Jackson, pro se, appeals from an order of the circuit court that denied his motion for sentence modification.

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The Estate of Michael Shimeta and Terry Scherr appeal an order denying their motion for judgment on the pleadings and granting Acuity, a Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion for declaratory judgment.

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Danielle Fischer appeals an order denying her WIS. STAT. § 806.07 motion for relief from a prior circuit court order.

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Marte L. Coffee appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury’s verdict, convicting him of one count of armed carjacking.

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Jeffrey William Koepsel, Jr., appeals from a judgment, entered on a jury’s verdicts, convicting him of one count of first-degree reckless injury with use of a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime, one count of substantial battery with use of a dangerous weapon as party to a crime, and one count of fourth-degree sexual assault.

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