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Sufficiency of Evidence – Sentencing
Paul Elmer owned and operated multiple healthcare-related companies including Pharmakon Pharmaceuticals.
Immigration – Appellate Filling Fee
Fadeel Shuhaiber is confined to a wheelchair. Following the district court’s dismissal of claims he brought against the Illinois Department of Corrections under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act, Shuhaiber appealed and, based on his impoverished status, sought permission to proceed on appeal without prepaying the requisite filing fee.
Sentencing Guidelines – Supervised Release
Devin Dawson violated the conditions of his supervised release after his release from prison.
Punitive Damages
Without permission from Epic Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (“TCS”) downloaded, from 2012 to 2014, thousands of documents containing Epic’s confidential information and trade secrets.
Plea & Sentencing – Alford Plea
Adel Daoud pressed the button to detonate a bomb that would have killed hundreds of innocent people in the name of Islam.
Plea & Sentencing – Waiver of Counsel
Kurt Johnson elected to represent himself at trial on federal fraud charges.
Order Amending Opinion
It is ORDERED that the opinion in this case issued October 21, 2020, is amended as follows: In the first line of the first sentence of the first paragraph under “I. BACKGROUND” on page two, strike “three counts” and replace that phrase with “one count”.
Class Action Fairness Action Violation – Article III Standing
As its name suggests, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA” or “the Act”) protects a person’s privacy interests in his biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, retina and iris scans, hand scans, and facial geometry.
Randolph-Sheppard Act Violation – Arbitration
The Randolph-Sheppard Act provides economic opportunities by granting blind persons priority to operate vending facilities at certain government properties.
Fee Award – Attorney’s Fees
Plaintiffs Tai Matlin and James Waring have spent seventeen years embroiled in disputes related to the intellectual property claims at issue in this case.
Sentencing Guidelines
This appeal presents several related issues about how federal judges should decide whether sentences in federal prosecutions should run consecutively to or concurrently with separate sentences in unrelated state prosecutions.
Sentencing Guidelines – Supervised Release
Jeremy Hogenkamp pleaded guilty to a federal crime and was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment plus 25 years’ supervised release.
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