An informant gave South Bend police the number to a phone that drug dealers in the South Bend area were supposedly using to sell drugs.

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Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), prisoners filing petitions to proceed in a suit in forma pauperis (“IFP”) can’t deliberately misrepresent their financial status.

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Plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant John F. Cloutier was a pilot for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee GoJet Airlines, LLC.

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Kenneth Smith has been in state prison for nineteen years for a murder and robbery that he insists he did not commit.

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In his plea agreement, defendant David Bridgewater waived the right to seek any modification of his sentence.

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Emmanuel Hart was convicted by a jury of robbing two Chicago banks in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a).

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Over the course of a three-week crime spree in October 2017, Rex Hammond robbed, or attempted to rob, seven stores at gunpoint in Indiana and Michigan.

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Amit Sinha appeals the rejection of his retaliation claims against his employer, Bradley University, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

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This appeal is part of an ongoing, decade-long, three-lawsuit fight between an insurer, Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast, and its insured, Creation Supply, Inc. (“CSI”), over who owed what when.

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For the second time in as many years we affirm the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought under the Medicare Act by entities seeking to collect on healthcare receivables assigned to them by so-called Medicare Advantage Organizations.

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Copyright law strikes a practical balance between the intellectual-property rights of authors and the public interest in preserving the free flow of ideas and information and encouraging creative expression, all in furtherance of the constitutional purpose to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”

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On August 16, 2017, Rexing Quality Eggs and owners Joseph and Leo Rexing (collectively “Rexing”) filed a declaratory judgment action in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.

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Alice Gedatus seeks social security disability benefits.

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Mesa Laboratories, Inc., was sued for sending unsolicited fax advertisements, but when it sought a defense from its insurer, its claim was denied.

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A Wisconsin jury found that Petitioner Eric Hodkiewicz stalked, harassed, and assaulted his wife and convicted him of nine offenses.

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Demoted, disparaged, and deprived of a free government car, Stafford Garbutt decided that he could no longer tolerate what he believed to be criminal conduct by his boss and co‐workers, conduct that he himself had been engaging in for more than ten years.

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In the spring of 2012, Zenon Grzegorczyk hired two men to kill his ex-wife and five of her friends in exchange for $48,000.

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In 2005 Dean Guenther was convicted of a federal firearms crime in Minnesota and was sentenced as an armed career criminal based in part on his prior Minnesota burglary convictions.

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London Triplett seeks relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, for the alleged ineffectiveness of his counsel in a state criminal proceeding.

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This case began as a divorce and child custody dispute in state court.

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Erica Flores’s life came to an untimely end when Officer Justin Gorny of the South Bend, Indiana, police department careened through residential streets and a red light at speeds up to 98 mph to reach a routine traffic stop he was not invited to aid, crashed into Flores’s car, and killed her.

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The First Amendment does not protect child pornography. In challenging his conviction for inducing sexually explicit videos from a minor, Timothy Fredrickson asks us to reconsider this well-established principle.

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Katherine Black sued two defendants for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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Michael Stivers pled guilty to receiving, possessing, and distributing child pornography.

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Before the arrival of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, Plaintiff Michelle Jauquet’s daughter, “Student A,” was already experiencing an exceedingly difficult eighth grade year at Notre Dame of De Pere Catholic Middle School in Wisconsin.

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Hobart police officers, relying on information obtained from an investigative database, misidentified Appellant Cortez Javan Rogers as the person who allegedly had intimidated a witness in a pending murder case.

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A jury convicted defendant-appellant Adonnis Carswell on four drug and firearm offenses, including possession of heroin with intent to distribute.

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An Illinois jury convicted Julius Evans of the first-degree murder of Moatice Williams, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Chicago.

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Alfred Jerry robbed a cellphone store at gunpoint and then pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951.

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David Newton, an inmate at FCI Seagoville in Texas, moved for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

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