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Plea & Sentencing – Collateral-attack Waivers
A grand jury indicted petitioner-appellant Jamar Plunkett on a charge of distributing crack cocaine.
IRS – Claim of Right – Tax Computation
Plaintiffs Kenneth and Ardyce Heiting brought this action seeking an income tax refund of the taxes they had paid on an unauthorized sale of stock by a trust.
Court Error – Sentence Modification – Criminal Procedure Rule 36
The district court modified David McClain’s two federal prison sentences under Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and McClain appeals. He contends that the changes—which added 18 months of prison time and required him to re-enter federal prison after he had been released—were not merely clerical.
Appellate Jurisdiction – Class Action Fairness Act
Ranita Railey clocked in and out of work at the Sunset Food Mart in Lake Forest, Illinois, by placing her hand on a biometric scanner.
Sentencing – Revocation of Pretrial Release
This is an appeal from an order revoking pretrial release based on the defendant’s violation of his release conditions.
Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference
LaVertis Stewart, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, sued the assistant warden, two doctors, and a medical corporation under the Eighth Amendment, claiming that they were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by refusing to grant him an exemption to wearing a restrictive security device, a black box, when he left the facility for medical appointments.
Sufficiency of Evidence
Richard Grundy III and his network of drug suppliers, couriers, distributors, and dealers trafficked hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in Indianapolis.
Admission of Evidence – Expert Testimony
A jury found that William Julius set fire to the building where his ex-girlfriend was living after she spurned his attempts to rekindle their relationship.
Summary Judgment – Title VII Violation
Citing an alleged budget deficit, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (“the Board”) laid off approximately 1,077 teachers and 393 paraprofessional educators in the summer of 2011.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
David Minnick pleaded no contest in Wisconsin state court to several crimes that resulted from a violent confrontation involving his then‐wife.
Breach of Contract – Equalize Capital Contributions
Christos Dimas appeals a judgment ordering him to pay his former business partner, George Stergiadis, for capital contributions Stergiadis made to their failed business, 1600 South, LLC.
Collective Bargaining Agreement – Arbitration
Five persons who used to work for Kerry, Inc., in Illinois filed this suit as a class action in state court.
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