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.
ALJ Error – Disability Benefits
Alice Gedatus seeks social security disability benefits.
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.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
A Wisconsin jury found that Petitioner Eric Hodkiewicz stalked, harassed, and assaulted his wife and convicted him of nine offenses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1st Amendment Violation – Standing to Sue
This case began as a divorce and child custody dispute in state court.
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.
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.
Court Error – Exclusion of Evidence
Katherine Black sued two defendants for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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