The opinion of this court issued on September 18, 2019, is amended as follows...

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The Indianapolis 500 race has been a fixture of American life since 1911, interrupted only by world war.

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Tywon Salters, a pretrial detainee in Kane County, Illinois, swallowed some cleaning fluid, apparently in an effort to commit suicide.

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These two appeals present straightforward issues of contract law, but with some procedural complications.

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The petition for rehearing en banc is GRANTED. The opinion and judgment entered by the panel are VACATED.

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Dennis Davis is an Illinois prisoner suffering from kidney disease.

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Zurich Insurance (Taiwan), Ltd., and Taian Insurance Company, Ltd., are insurance companies based in Taiwan.

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In late 2009 Cathy Truitt filed seven nearly identical tax returns, each falsely claiming that she was entitled to a $300,000 refund.

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Dino Greco spent more than a decade in prison for blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s car with a pipe bomb.

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This interlocutory bankruptcy appeal presents a matter of first impression for our court: whether Illinois’s version of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code requires a financing statement to contain within its four corners a specific description of secured collateral, or if incorporating a description by reference to an unattached security agreement sufficiently “indicates” the collateral.

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This case arises from a heinous triple murder that occurred almost 19 years ago in Georgetown, Indiana, a small town near the Kentucky border.

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Ernest Odei traveled from his native Ghana to the United States in 2017 to meet with academic advisors and to perform missionary work.

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While tracking down a fugitive, Deputy Marshal Stephen Linder interrogated the fugitive’s father.

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A federal jury in Minnesota convicted Todd Chazen of possessing a firearm following a prior felony conviction.

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Mountain Crest SRL, LLC (“Mountain Crest”), brought this action, alleging that Anheuser Busch InBev SA/NV (“Anheuser-Busch”) and Molson Coors Brewing Company (“Molson Coors”) had conspired to damage Mountain Crest’s beer exports to Ontario, Canada, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1– 2. Mountain Crest also alleged that Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors were enriched unjustly in violation of Wisconsin law.

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McGarry & McGarry, LLC, a creditor in a closed Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, tried three times to bring a price-fixing claim against Bankruptcy Management Solutions, Inc. (“BMS”), the trustee’s software-services provider.

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Upon consideration of the MOTION TO CORRECT OPINION, filed on August 20, 2019, by counsel for the plaintiff-appellee United States of America, IT IS ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED.

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Digital platforms unleash instant and limitless capabilities; at the tap of a finger, one can touch the world.

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Lloyd Johnson brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various employees and officials of the Milwaukee County Medical Health Complex (“MHC”), MHC itself, Milwaukee County, and the County’s Department of Health and Human Services.

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Petitioner-appellant Stacy Haynes challenges three of his convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which imposes steep penalties on a defendant who uses a firearm during a “crime of violence.”

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Malcolm Cobb, Jr., an Indiana prisoner, brought a state-court negligence action against Aramark Correctional Services, LLC (“Aramark”) for failing to clean up a spill in the kitchen at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, causing him to slip and fracture his ankle.

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Two Cook County residents appeal the dismissal of their complaint, which raises a Second Amendment challenge to Cook County’s ban on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines.

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In November 2010 Dallas Green was walking through a Citgo parking lot late at night when an unmarked Chicago police vehicle turned into the lot.

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Jeremy Lockett, an inmate at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (“WSPF”), brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover for alleged violations of his constitutional rights under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, allege a racially discriminatory hiring scheme that has resulted in a lack of Hispanic and Latino line workers at Ford Motor Company’s Chicago assembly plant.

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Consistent with Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979), Indiana statutes have long provided a fast and confidential judicial bypass procedure that is supposed to allow a small fraction of pregnant, unemancipated minors seeking abortions to obtain them without the consent of or notice to their parents, guardians, or custodians.

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Voting is at once an intensely personal act and a choice to participate in the collective process of representative democracy.

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On the evening of February 9, 2017, Michael Barber and his friend Anthony Chipps used a crowbar to break into Dutchman Hunting Supplies in Shipshewana, Indiana, and steal 15 handguns.

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Travis Williams appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of several correctional employees.

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Driveline Systems, LLC (“Driveline”) filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Arctic Cat, Inc. (“Arctic Cat”) over a supply contract for specially manufactured goods.

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