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Sentencing Guidelines
From 2012 to 2015, employees of Elite Imports, a car dealership, engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities.
Sufficiency of Evidence
A jury found Jessica A. O’Brien guilty of both bank fraud and mail fraud affecting a financial institution based on her participation in a 2004-to-2007 mortgage fraud scheme.
Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference
Levi Lord, an inmate in the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, exposed himself to a female guard.
Immigration – Removal Proceedings
Benjamin Omorhienrhien is a Nigerian citizen who received conditional permanent resident status based on his marriage to a United States citizen.
Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
This case is the culmination of a grotesque history of sexual abuse in the Geary household.
Class Action – Personal Jurisdiction
Florence Mussat, an Illinois physician doing business through a professional services corporation, received two unsolicited faxes from IQVIA, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Pennsylvania.
Due Process Violation
This § 1983 case arises out of disciplinary decisions issued by the Cook County Sheriff’s Merit Board between 2013 and 2016.
Unlawful-stop Claim – Reasonable Suspicion
One hundred police departments use a surveillance network of GPS-enabled acoustic sensors called ShotSpotter to identify gunfire, quickly triangulate its location, and then direct officers to it.
Arbitration
Brickstructures, Inc. and Coaster Dynamix, Inc. joined forces to create a LEGO‐compatible roller coaster set.
Sentencing Guidelines – Restitution
A jury found Monica Hernandez guilty of mail fraud for her participation in a fraudulent mortgage trust company.
Abuse of Discretion – Subject-matter Jurisdiction
Monique Bowling purchased over $1.3 million worth of computer equipment on the City of Gary, Indiana’s vendor accounts and then sold the devices for cash, leaving the city to foot the bill.
Statutory Interpretation – Implied Preemption – Supremacy Clause
Kansas makes it a crime to commit “identity theft” or engage in fraud to obtain a benefit.
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- Wisconsin election fraud charge issued from November 2022 general election
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