Tax Deficiency – Innocent Spouse Relief
Petitioner Rick E. Jacobsen’s former wife Tina M. Lemmens embezzled over $400,000 from her employer, income that was not reported on the couple’s jointly filed income taxes.
FMLA Violation
Buddy Phillips (now deceased) injured his ribs while playing with his grandchildren.
Plea Colloquy
Grayson Enterprises, Inc., is a roofing company that does business under the trade name Gire Roofing.
Equitable Tolling
DeWayne Perry, serving a long sentence for murder, suffers from aphasia, which impairs his ability to speak, write, and understand words.
Medicaid Contractors – Outstanding Bills
Plaintiffs are consultants who provide services to nursing homes and long‐term care facilities.
Due Process Violation
On July 28, 2016, two men entered a Sprint store with a gun, threatened and zip‐tied all witnesses, grabbed some merchandise, and fled the store in two vehicles.
Bankruptcy – Reclamation Claim
This is an appeal from an adversary proceeding in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and concerns a trade creditor’s right to reclaim goods it sold to the debtor on the eve of bankruptcy.
Sentencing Guidelines
From 2011 through 2016, Roy Collins was the executive director of the Kankakee Valley Park District (“the Park District”), which is a municipal entity that serves residents of Aroma Park and Kankakee Townships, Illinois.
Trademark Infringement – Personal Jurisdiction
Charles Curry brought this action pro se in the district court, alleging that Revolution Laboratories, LLC (“Revolution”), Rev Labs Management, Inc. (“Management”), and Joshua and Barry Nussbaum (collectively the “defendants”) had infringed and diluted his trademark, violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act, violated the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practice[...]
Sentencing Guidelines
After Roberto Guzman-Ramirez pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, he was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment.
Abuse of Discretion – Amended Complaint
Ricardo Glover, a Wisconsin inmate, sued prison medical staff and Wisconsin Department of Corrections officials for deliberate indifference and for violating his right to equal protection after they denied him medicine prescribed for post‐surgical erectile dysfunction.
Independent Contractor – Negligence
After Marina Kolchinsky and her mother, Lidia Kolchinsky, were severely injured in a car collision with a tractor-trailer in Illinois, they sued the truck driver and the two companies that contracted with him.
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