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Civil Digest

May 14, 2018

Failure to State Claim

At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (the Agency) and authorized it to place into conservatorship two critical government‐sponsored enterprises—the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 12 U.S.C. § 4617(a).

May 14, 2018

Disclosure of Electronic Investigative Techniques

This appeal concerns the use of a cell-site simulator to locate someone.

May 14, 2018

Due Process Violation

Plaintiff-appellant Thomas James, an inmate with the Arizona Department of Corrections, filed a pro se complaint against defendants-appellees, Dr. Lorenzo Eli and Dr. Nicolas Villanustre, for alleged deliberate indifference towards his medical care while he was incarcerated in Indiana.

May 14, 2018

Sentencing Guidelines

When Grover Ferguson was 17 years old he shot a woman three times during a carjacking, causing significant permanent injury.

May 14, 2018

Immigration – Asylum Claim

Francisco Javier Perez, a Honduran citizen, petitions for review of the denial of his application for deferral of removal under Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture.

May 14, 2018

Sentencing Guidelines

Law enforcement executed a search warrant at Brian Thurman’s residence after a cooperating in‐formant purchased heroin inside.

May 14, 2018

Motion to Suppress Evidence Denied

Defendant‐appellant Alvin Edge‐ worth was convicted of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm.

May 14, 2018

FDCPA Violation

This appeal concerns four consolidated cases involving similar alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1692e(8).

May 14, 2018

FMLA and ADA Violation

Plaintiff Rasul Freelain worked as a police officer in the Village of Oak Park, Illinois for five years before he claims another officer began harassing him.

May 10, 2018

Statutory Interpretation

This case requires us to engage in a typical judicial exercise, construing a statute that is technical, unclear, and constitutes a minor procedural part of a larger administrative scheme.

May 10, 2018

Inter Partes Review – Constitutional Violation

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 35 U. S. C. §100 et seq., establishes a process called “inter partes review.”

May 10, 2018

Statutory Interpretation – Alien Tort

Petitioners in this case, or the persons on whose behalf petitioners now assert claims, allegedly were injured or killed by terrorist acts committed abroad.

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