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7th Circuit Digest

Jun 28, 2021

Damages

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

Jun 28, 2021

ALJ Error – Disability Benefits

Alice Gedatus seeks social security disability benefits.

Jun 28, 2021

Insurance Claim – Duty to Defend – TCPA Violation

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

Jun 20, 2021

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

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

Jun 15, 2021

Abuse of Discretion – Sufficiency of Evidence

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.

Jun 15, 2021

Plea Withdrawal

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.

Jun 15, 2021

ACCA-enhanced Sentence – Saving-Clause

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.

Jun 15, 2021

Habeas Relief – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

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

Jun 15, 2021

1st Amendment Violation – Standing to Sue

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

Jun 15, 2021

Due Process Violation

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.

Jun 15, 2021

1st Amendment Violation

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.

Jun 15, 2021

Court Error – Exclusion of Evidence

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

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