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Civil Digest

May 29, 2019

Due Process Violation

Joel Jahnke appeals from an amended judgment of conviction for second-degree sexual assault of a child, exposing genitals to a child, and causing a child between the ages of thirteen and eighteen to view sexual activity.

May 27, 2019

Failure to State Claim

Gene Frederickson Trucking and Excavating, Inc. (“Frederickson”) appeals a judgment dismissing, for failure to state a claim, its civil conspiracy and “prima facie tort” claims against various defendants associated with Wagner 22, LLC (“Wagner 22” and, collectively with the other defendants, the “Wagner Group”).

May 27, 2019

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

William Bransford, pro se, appeals from an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2017-18) postconviction motion without a hearing.

May 27, 2019

Abuse of Discretion – Zoning Ordinance

Carlin Club Properties, LLC (“Carlin Club”) appeals a summary judgment granted in favor of Carlin Lake Association, Inc. (“the Association”) and seven individual owners of riparian property on Carlin Lake (“the Landowners”).

May 27, 2019

Reformation of Mortgage

Gianni Bozzacchi appeals from an order denying his motion for relief from an April 2009 order that required him to mortgage his home.

May 27, 2019

5th Amendment – Sex Offenders – Class Action

When the state wants to encourage suspects, defendants, or incarcerated offenders to admit guilt, it has many tools at its disposal.

May 27, 2019

Sufficiency of Evidence

A jury convicted Maria Moreno of one count of conspiring with others with the intent to distribute narcotics and two counts of knowingly using a telephone in furtherance of the conspiracy.

May 27, 2019

Insurance Claim – Malpractice

A jury found Surgery Center at 900 North Michigan Avenue, LLC (“Surgery Center”) liable in a medical malpractice action for $5.17 million.

May 27, 2019

Mootness

After an examination in 2015, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation assigned Builders Bank a CAMELS rating of 4, near the bottom of the scale.

May 27, 2019

Case No.: 18-3236

GEFT Outdoors, LLC began building a digital billboard on its property in the City of Westfield, Indiana without obtaining or applying for the requisite sign permit.

May 27, 2019

Immigration – Asylum

In September 2016, members of a Mexican drug cartel kidnapped, tortured, and threatened to kill petitioner Mauricio Gonzalez Ruano, who was living with his family in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

May 27, 2019

6th Amendment Violation – Confrontation Clause

A jury convicted Myshawn Bonds of bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), and a judge sentenced him to sixty months’ imprisonment plus three years’ supervised release.

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