John Evans is a state prisoner and, unquestionably, not a healthy man.

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Frankie Brown pled guilty to distributing a controlled substance.

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Plaintiff Bradley Lavite is a combat veteran who works in the Administration Building of Madison County, Illinois, as superintendent for the County’s Veterans Assistance Commission.

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This appeal centers on the performance of the court-appointed receiver of financial advisory firm Nutmeg Group, LLC.

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The University of Illinois fired Louis Wozniak in 2013. Until then he had tenure on the faculty of the College of Engineering.

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Eric Mapes was arrested for trespassing after being refused service at a CVS store.

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Donald and Mary Timm sustained serious injuries in a horrific motorcycle accident.

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Washington Federal Bank brought a default action against Patrick Doherty, John Farano, Jr., and Worth Conversion, LLC, for notes related to various real estate ventures.

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Police arrested five men involved in a string of Milwaukee armed robberies in late 2016.

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Section 522(b)(1) of the United States Bankruptcy Code states that a “debtor may exempt from property of the [bankruptcy] estate the property listed in either paragraph (2) or, in the alternative paragraph (3).”

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After Michael Campos’s August 2011 arrest for driving under the influence, his employer—the Cook County Sheriff’s Office—began termination proceedings.

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This appeal presents issues stemming from a prison’s discipline of a prisoner and his later suicide attempts.

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One afternoon in 2014, three Chicago police officers stopped three black men in a grey sedan to investigate a nearby shooting that had happened a few hours earlier.

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The opinion issued in the above-entitled case on June 12, 2019, is hereby amended as follows...

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A federal grand jury indicted defendants Julian Thomas and James Thompson for robbing a bank.

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SportFuel appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for Gatorade and its parent company, PepsiCo.

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Jeffrey Leiser was an inmate at the Wisconsin Stanley Correctional Institution where Sergeant Karen Kloth was employed.

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This class action suit challenges the red light camera program of the Village of Lakemoor, Illinois.

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Richard Kraemer pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B).

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The complex background of these consolidated appeals burrows through over a decade of litigation.

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Tara Crump applied for disability benefits based on numerous mental health impairments, including bipolar disorder and polysubstance abuse disorder.

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In United States v. Cardena, 842 F.3d 959 (7th Cir. 2016), we held that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)— which partially defines “crime of violence” for § 924—is unconstitutionally vague.

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Cash Depot underpaid employees for their overtime work.

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Before bringing a tort claim against the United States, a plaintiff must first exhaust her administrative remedies by presenting her claim to the appropriate federal agency.

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The plaintiffs were inmates at Stateville Correctional Center when they were struck by buckshot fired by the defendant prison guards.

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Glenn Lewellen, a dirty cop with the Chicago Police Department (CPD), arrested Refugio RuizCortez for possessing cocaine.

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Seventeen years after Eleazar Corral Valenzuela (Corral) was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor family member in Illinois state court, the United States filed a civil complaint to revoke his naturalized citizenship and cancel his certificate of naturalization.

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Nowhere does the Constitution’s promise of due process mean more than in a criminal trial.

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Delrico Nelson appeals the revocation of his supervised release and ensuing 60‐month prison sentence.

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We focus here on an issue involving a well‐known figure in Social Security cases: the vocational expert.

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