Sufficiency of Evidence
Trials often require jurors, as laypeople considering evidence, to draw inferences based on their life experiences.
Bankruptcy – Damages
Chapter 13 bankruptcy is a promise to a debtor: if you comply with the bankruptcy plan, then you can get a fresh start.
Equal Protection Violation
The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that state actors have, at a minimum, a rational basis for treating similarly situated people differently.
4th Amendment Violation – Unlawful Seizure and Malicious Prosecution
While arresting gang members in Centralia, Illinois, police officer Michael Peebles felt intimidated when Shirlena Barnes, a city resident with gang connections, drove up and yelled derogatory epithets.
Sufficiency of Evidence
While shopping at a Wal-Mart store, Linda Waldon believes she slipped on a plastic hanger and fell causing her injuries.
Sentencing – Supervised Release
In the late summer and fall of 2014, multiple pharmacies in Indianapolis were robbed at gun point.
Sentencing Guidelines
Carleous Clay challenges his within-guidelines life sentence as unreasonable.
ALJ Error – Discrimination Claim
Sharon Haynes appeals pro se from a circuit court order that upheld the Labor and Industry Review Commission’s decision rejecting Haynes’s discrimination claim against Blain’s Farm & Fleet.
Termination of Parental Rights
M.W.P., E.W.P.’s biological father, appeals from an order of the circuit court terminating his parental rights to E.W.P. For the following reasons.
Abuse of Discretion – Expert Witness
Anushree Mehrotra and Himanshu Sharma (collectively, the Sharmas) appeal from an order granting summary judgment to Robert Krecak.
Sentencing Guidelines
Appellant Adrian Grisanti was convicted of child-pornography offenses and destruction of evidence.
Breach of Contract – Health-care Benefits
Defendant Signode Industrial Group LLC assumed an obligation to pay health-care benefits to a group of retired steelworkers and their families.
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