The district court revoked Michael Allgire’s supervised release after Allgire skipped out one month into his six-month term at a halfway house.

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In 2013, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) began investigating Dr. Larry Ley and his opioid addiction treatment company, Drug Opiate Recovery Network, Inc. (DORN), for dealing a controlled substance.

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Nationwide Credit sent Henry Horia a letter seeking to collect a debt owed to Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.

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Is a person’s username a part of her identity? That is a complex question, but one that Christine Dancel proposes can be resolved categorically for all usernames and all people.

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When a group of employees wants to collectively bargain with their employer, but the employer believes the group is ineligible for collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act, the two parties may address the dispute in a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board.

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In October 2014 Timothy Johnson showed up drunk for an appointment at a rehab clinic.

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Dan Proft, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, et al. Case No.: 18-3475 Officials: EASTERBROOK, KANNE, and BRENNAN, Circuit Judges. Focus: 1st Amendment Violation A provision of the Illinois Election Code limits how much ...

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George Burciaga lost his job in May 2018 and filed for bankruptcy a week later.

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The National Park Service donated more than 3,000 acres in central Wisconsin to the state’s Department of Natural Resources.

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TRUMPF Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of an international business, makes specialty tools such as precision laser cutters.

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Proving that almost anything can give rise to litigation, this case concerns chocolates that Clarisha Benson and Lorenzo Smith purchased at their local Fannie May stores in Chicago.

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Two non-competing Midwestern companies operated by brothers used marks containing the family name, Fabick.

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Nicholas Edwards pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender, in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2250—his fourth conviction for a failure to register a change of address as required by state and federal statutes.

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The opinion of this court issued on December 4, 2019, is amended as follows: Page 3, “Fed. R. Evid. 59” should be “Fed. R. Civ. P. 59.”

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Risa Stegall applied and interviewed for a service representative position with the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) in 2010.

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Sergeant David Mueller took a leave of absence from the City of Joliet Police Department to report for active duty in the Illinois National Guard Counterdrug Task Force.

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This appeal deals with First Amendment protection for public employees when they engage in speech that is not related ortied to their work.

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Ruben Porraz was the leader of a Chicago chapter of the Latin Kings gang for about four years.

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Trials often require jurors, as laypeople considering evidence, to draw inferences based on their life experiences.

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Chapter 13 bankruptcy is a promise to a debtor: if you comply with the bankruptcy plan, then you can get a fresh start.

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The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that state actors have, at a minimum, a rational basis for treating similarly situated people differently.

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While arresting gang members in Centralia, Illinois, police officer Michael Peebles felt intimidated when Shirlena Barnes, a city resident with gang connections, drove up and yelled derogatory epithets.

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While shopping at a Wal-Mart store, Linda Waldon believes she slipped on a plastic hanger and fell causing her injuries.

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In the late summer and fall of 2014, multiple pharmacies in Indianapolis were robbed at gun point.

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Carleous Clay challenges his within-guidelines life sentence as unreasonable.

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Sharon Haynes appeals pro se from a circuit court order that upheld the Labor and Industry Review Commission’s decision rejecting Haynes’s discrimination claim against Blain’s Farm & Fleet.

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M.W.P., E.W.P.’s biological father, appeals from an order of the circuit court terminating his parental rights to E.W.P. For the following reasons.

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Anushree Mehrotra and Himanshu Sharma (collectively, the Sharmas) appeal from an order granting summary judgment to Robert Krecak.

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Appellant Adrian Grisanti was convicted of child-pornography offenses and destruction of evidence.

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Defendant Signode Industrial Group LLC assumed an obligation to pay health-care benefits to a group of retired steelworkers and their families.

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