Sentencing – Supervised Release
Christopher Anstice pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release.
Insurance Claim – Coverage
The Baby Fold is a nonprofit corporation that provides foster-care services in Illinois.
Immigration – Asylum
To obtain asylum in the United States, N.Y.C.C. needed to establish that she has faced past persecution or harbors a well-founded fear of future persecution based on her membership in a particular social group.
Sanctions – Bad Faith
Charles Donelson sued a nurse and Wexford Health Sources, Inc., for allegedly providing him with constitutionally deficient medical care in prison and retaliating against him for filing other lawsuits.
Sentencing Guidelines
Henry Posada (“Posada”) was found guilty of 18 counts of health care fraud by a jury.
Sentencing Guidelines
This is the second time we have been asked to review the sentence that Joshua Herman received after pleading guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which prohibits felons from possessing a firearm.
6th Amendment Violation
In 2015 a passenger on a bus operated by the Chicago Transit Authority screamed at and threatened Lawrence Pickett, the driver.
1st Amendment Violation
Erik Schmidt and his girlfriend were camping in a national forest in Wisconsin when a United States Forest Service Officer approached their campsite.
1st Amendment Violation
This case began as a child custody dispute in state court. Dana Alden and his wife divorced in 2009.
Court Error – Bankruptcy Fee Schedule
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1930(a)(6), quarterly fees paid by a chapter 11 debtor to the bankruptcy Trustee are based on the debtor’s disbursements.
Negligence Claim – FELA
Behind the legal question we must resolve in this case is a sad story: as Celso Guerrero was trying to drive to his job at BNSF Railway through a snowstorm early one morning, his car skidded, it collided with a snowplow, and he was killed.
Equal Protection Violation
In 2005 Paramount Media Group, Inc., leased a parcel of highway-adjacent property in the Village of Bellwood, Illinois, and planned to build a billboard on it.
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