A jury convicted Danny Wilber of murder in Wisconsin state court, and he was sentenced to a life term in prison.

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In March 2017, the Department of Homeland Security commenced removal proceedings against Yves Mabuneza.

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Melvin Reed applied for a job at Planet Fitness of Milwaukee.

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Jose Edin Pineda-Teruel illegally entered the United States in 2007.

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Damon Turnage contends that on September 21, 2016, he fell from an upper bunk at Cook County Jail and suffered a broken ankle plus other injuries.

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Carl P. Palladinetti participated in a scheme to defraud lenders into facilitating certain real estate transactions.

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William White sued several federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, challenging the pace at which the agencies released responsive records and their alleged failure to reveal other records.

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Christian Lovies, wielding a gun, stole Emily Butler’s car as she was filling it with gasoline.

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Henry Wood was arrested for violating his parole. Midway through the arrest, parole agents found methamphetamine hidden underneath the back cover of his cellphone.

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This appeal is another chapter in concurrent federal and state litigation challenging the construction of a $500 million, 100-mile power line in southwestern Wisconsin.

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A grand jury indicted petitioner-appellant Jamar Plunkett on a charge of distributing crack cocaine.

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Plaintiffs Kenneth and Ardyce Heiting brought this action seeking an income tax refund of the taxes they had paid on an unauthorized sale of stock by a trust.

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The district court modified David McClain’s two federal prison sentences under Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and McClain appeals. He contends that the changes—which added 18 months of prison time and required him to re-enter federal prison after he had been released—were not merely clerical.

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Ranita Railey clocked in and out of work at the Sunset Food Mart in Lake Forest, Illinois, by placing her hand on a biometric scanner.

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This is an appeal from an order revoking pretrial release based on the defendant’s violation of his release conditions.

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LaVertis Stewart, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, sued the assistant warden, two doctors, and a medical corporation under the Eighth Amendment, claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by refusing to grant him an exemption to wearing a restrictive security device, a black box, when he left the facility for medical appointments.

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Richard Grundy III and his network of drug suppliers, couriers, distributors, and dealers trafficked hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in Indianapolis.

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A jury found that William Julius set fire to the building where his ex-girlfriend was living after she spurned his attempts to rekindle their relationship.

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Citing an alleged budget deficit, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (“the Board”) laid off approximately 1,077 teachers and 393 paraprofessional educators in the summer of 2011.

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David Minnick pleaded no contest in Wisconsin state court to several crimes that resulted from a violent confrontation involving his then‐wife.

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Christos Dimas appeals a judgment ordering him to pay his former business partner, George Stergiadis, for capital contributions Stergiadis made to their failed business, 1600 South, LLC.

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Five persons who used to work for Kerry, Inc., in Illinois filed this suit as a class action in state court.

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After the City of Joliet, Illinois, condemned a housing development managed by New West and New Bluff (collectively New West), and paid $15 million for the properties, the parties disagreed about the appropriate disposition of a fund worth roughly $2.7 million.

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In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the Supreme Court considered whether a complaint alleging a violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act “can survive a motion to dismiss when it alleges that major telecommunications providers engaged in certain parallel conduct unfavorable to competition, absent some factual context suggesting agreement, as distinct from identical, independent action.”

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Eric Nyandwi, facing removal from the United States because of multiple felony convictions, applied for a deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture.

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A grand jury indicted Alejandro Campos-Rivera for unlawfully reentering the United States after removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a).

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Giavonni Cunningham appeals his sentence for unlawful possession of ammunition, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), on the ground that the district court miscalculated his range under the Sentencing Guidelines.

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Adam Sprenger pled guilty to production and possession of child pornography pursuant to a plea agreement.

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This case returns to us after we remanded to the district court for an evidentiary hearing on whether the petitioner could overcome the one‐year time bar to filing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, under the actual innocence exception.

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Anthony Lloyd Murry, a Jamaican citizen, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying him relief from removal.

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