Court Error – Abuse of Discretion
Randy McCaa filed a pro se complaint in 2016, alleging that prison officials at the Green Bay Correctional Institution deliberately disregarded his risk of suicide, causing him to suffer serious physical injuries on four different occasions.
Environmental Law – Clean Air Act
This case concerns just shy of 13 acres of wetlands, which lie in a south‐suburban plot of land called the Warmke parcel.
Title VII Violation
Khalid Khowaja served as a Special Agent (SA) in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Milwaukee field office for nearly a year before his employment was terminated.
Court Error – Abuse of Discretion
Robert Kowalski is dissatisfied with his treatment by judges and sheriff’s personnel during his divorce proceedings.
Inequitable Settlements
Inequitable settlements are an unfortunate recurring bug in our system of class litigation.
Breach of Contract and Negligence
Jennifer DiPerna was a student pursuing a master’s degree in clinical psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP), a private, non-profit institution.
Antitrust – Year In Residence Rule
This case raises an antitrust challenge to the NCAA’s “year in residence” rule, which requires student-athletes who transfer to a Division I college to wait one full academic year before they can play for their new school.
Breach of Contract
Plaintiff Daryl Sutula‐Johnson sued her former employer, alleging that its changes to her compensation for selling office furniture breached its contract with her and violated the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act.
Supervised Release Conditions
Joseph Canfield was convicted and incarcerated for possessing child pornography.
Jury Instructions
Jose Maldonado and Francisco Masias (together, “the Defendants”) were charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine, amongst six other counts irrelevant to this appeal.
Breach of Contract
Henry Fiorentini is the owner and president of Panatech, Inc., a small technology company. When cancer treatment left him unable to perform his job, he received total disability benefits under a policy he held with the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company.
Court Error – Party to Contract
WeConnect, Inc. asks us to reverse the district court for making a factual mistake.
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