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.
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”).
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.
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”).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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