Sentencing Guidelines
Arthur Robinson pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm.
Due Process Violation
Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and that observation rings true here.
Damages – Comparative Negligence
For four years, nurse practitioner Denise Jordan treated Kevin Clanton’s severe hypertension. Jordan, an employee of the U.S. Public Health Service, failed to properly educate Clanton about his disease or to monitor its advancement.
Title VII Violation – Retaliation Claim
Edith McCurry worked at an Illinois warehouse owned by Mars, Inc., the well-known candy maker, and operated by Kenco Logistics Services, a third-party management firm.
Immigration – Removal Order – Due Process Violation
Ruben Lopez Ramos brings this petition to review the removal decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”).
Statutory Interpretation – Local-government Policy – Illegal Acts
Under Monell v. New York City Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), local governments may be liable for violating individuals’ rights guaranteed by federal law.
Unions – Fair Share Fees
For 41 years, explicit Supreme Court precedent authorized state‐government entities and unions to enter into agreements under which the unions could receive fair‐share fees from nonmembers to cover the costs incurred when the union negotiated or acted on their behalf over terms of employment.
Malpractice Claim
Illinois requires the plaintiff in a medical-malpractice suit to file an affidavit stating that “there is a reasonable and meritorious cause” for litigation.
Probable Cause – Suppression of Evidence
After a heated argument with his girlfriend, Micha Eatman found himself pounding on her apartment door and yelling to be let inside.
Petition for Rehearing En Banc
The opinion of this court issued on August 8, 2019, is amended as follows: At the end of the paragraph that carries from page 4 to page 5 add, “Sterlinski has not contended that non-Catholics are ever hired as organists by the Parish, and we need not consider the potential bearing of that possibility.”
Due Process Violation
DeWayne Knight is a prisoner who went under the knife for one surgery and Dr. Thomas Grossman, upon seeing during the operation that he made the wrong diagnosis, performed another.
Petition for Rehearing En Banc
On consideration of defendants-appellants’ petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc, filed on September 24, 2019, a majority of judges in active service voted to deny the petition for rehearing en banc.
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