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Insurance Claim – Coverage
At age 56, Margery Newman purchased a long-term-care insurance plan from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”).
Bankruptcy – Chapter 13 Plan Payments
Appellee Denise L. Blake is a below‐median income debtor who filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
Plea and Sentencing – Sentencing Guidelines
Walker Hampton was caught breaking into a trucking business and later confessed to robbing a nearby post office as well.
Statutory Interpretation
In December 2010 a Wisconsin jury found Muhammad Sarfraz guilty of sexually assaulting I.N., a Pakistani immigrant who, along with her father, briefly lived with Sarfraz after arriving in this country in late 2009.
1st Amendment Violation
Since ancient times, people have been celebrating the winter solstice, which occurs around the third week of December in the Northern Hemisphere.
Stored Communications Act – Good Faith Defense
This appeal requires us once again to delve into the intricacies of the Wisconsin “John Doe proceeding,” a unique creature of Wisconsin law with some similarities to a grand jury investigation.
Sentencing – Statute Interpretation
In this appeal of a denial of a petition for review under 18 U.S.C. § 2255, Ernest Shields argues that he should not have been sentenced as an armed career criminal because two of his Illinois convictions—one for residential burglary and another for armed robbery—cannot be characterized as violent felonies under the Armed Career Criminal Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 924(e).
FDCPA and FCRA Violation
Deborah Walton sued EOS CCA, a debt collector, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Sentencing Guidelines and Sufficiency of Evidence
Joseph Faulkner and Otis Sykes were convicted of conspiring to sell heroin at a place called the Keystone, an open-air drug market on Chicago’s west side.
Motion for New Trial – Newly Discovered Evidence
The government alleges Daniel Ballard fraudulently obtained construction loans from a bank.
Judges vie for spot on Wisconsin Supreme Court
With the playing field now narrowed, experts say the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will for the most part go back to looking like previous races for the state’s high court. The primary election held on Feb. 20 knocked Madison-based lawyer Tim Burns out of the running to replace retiring Justice […]
Closing Arguments: Questions remain over state’s Keller dues policies
In a state with a mandatory bar, it’s perhaps inevitable that the dues lawyers must pay to practice law should become a subject of debate from time to time. Wisconsin has been no stranger to these controversies. In recent years, the state has seen a small group of lawyers regularly raise objections over what are […]
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- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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