Haiyan Chen, a citizen of China, entered the United States without inspection (that is, by stealth) in 2004.

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Maurice Withers made a living trafficking women and girls for sex.

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In 2014, the federal government charged Warren Barr with federal crimes for his role in a fraudulent real-estate-selling scheme in Chicago.

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Eugene Falls appeals the revocation of his supervised release.

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Alfred L. Cross pled guilty to five counts of bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344(1).

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Plaintiff Randy McCaa is a Wisconsin prisoner who alleges that prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by responding with deliberate indifference to his threats to commit suicide or to harm himself in other ways.

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Carlos Alvarez‐Espino entered the United States illegally in 1996, settled in Chicago, but later ran into legal trouble and came to the attention of immigration enforcement.

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Scott Hildreth, an inmate at an Illinois maximum-security prison, suffers from Parkinson’s disease.

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While confined in the Polk County Jail, two female inmates, J.K.J. and M.J.J., endured repeated sexual assaults at the hands of correctional officer Darryl Christensen.

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Four years ago we held that Chicago is entitled to limit sales on the streets adjacent to Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

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A jury found Keith Hoglund guilty of molesting his daughter. The district judge denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

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It is axiomatic that the first step in the summary-judgment process is to ask whether the evidentiary record establishes a genuine issue of material fact for trial.

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A criminal defendant pleaded guilty to making threatening and harassing interstate telephone calls.

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Plaintiffs Joseph Denan and Adrienne Padgett sued consumer reporting agency Trans Union LLC, alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.

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In the course of a police check of a suspicious vehicle, Nicholas Nelson was caught with a handgun.

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Timothy Fredrickson, then awaiting his criminal trial, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2241, seeking release on bail.

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On December 14, 2016, Shon L. Gibson (“Gibson”), was arrested and charged with possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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Albert Kirkman (“Kirkman”) was arrested and charged with the murders of two men and attempted murder of a third, Willie Johnson (“Johnson”).

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Roberta “Mama Bear” Draheim was a drug dealer in northern Wisconsin. Draheim’s meth conspiracy was her proverbial cub.

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This set of cross-appeals arises from a distribution agreement that each party asserts the other breached.

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Plaintiff H.A.L. NY Holdings, LLC is in the business of trading securities.

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Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act’s public accommodation provisions apply to ridesharing companies like Uber is unsettled.

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Section 15(b) of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), 740 ILCS 14 (2008), regulates the collection, use, and retention of a person’s biometric identifiers or information.

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On an afternoon in December 2012, the Chicago Police Department received an anonymous 911 call reporting a Hispanic man in a black sweater and black hat, carrying a bag, and climbing under a warehouse fence.

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Quincy Bioscience, LLC (“Quincy”) filed this civil action against Ellishbooks, related individuals, and entities (collectively “Ellishbooks”) alleging claims for trademark infringement, false advertising, dilution, and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1125, as well as claims under Illinois statutory and common law.

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This appeal asks us to consider under which federal employee compensation act a postal worker’s claim of emotional distress must be resolved.

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In December 2016, law enforcement officers facilitated a controlled buy of heroin from Juan Perez- —someone the officers suspected was a high-level drug dealer in the Beloit, Wisconsin area.

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For the second time, Kenneth Mayle has sued the State of Illinois to challenge state laws prohibiting bigamy, adultery, and fornication.

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Skyrise Construction Group, LLC, a subcontractor, sued Annex Construction, LLC, a general contractor, for breach of contract, promissory estoppel, negligent misrepresentation, violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, 815 ILCS 505/1 et seq., and violation of the Wisconsin Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Wis. Stat. 100.18.

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William Lund, a reporter, was arrested in Rockford, Illinois after discovering a police‐run prostitution sting operation in the course of his news‐gathering activities.

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