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Civil Digest

Oct 14, 2020

Plea Withdrawal and Other Acts Evidence

Michael E. Doege appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon his guilty plea to one count of identity theft, and from an order denying his postconviction motion for plea withdrawal.

Oct 14, 2020

Court Error – Consolidated Appeal and Other Acts Evidence

Tyrell S. Tolbert appeals judgments of conviction, following a jury trial, of multiple charges.

Oct 14, 2020

Judgment Award

Jeffrey and Sherilyn Van Goethem appeal a foreclosure judgment granted on U.S. Bank National Association’s (U.S. Bank) summary judgment motion.

Oct 13, 2020

Insurance Claim – Coverage

John Doe appeals the order granting summary judgment to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Metropolitan Milwaukee (BBBS) and BBBS’s insurance carrier, First Nonprofit Insurance Company (First Nonprofit).

Oct 13, 2020

Admittance of Evidence – Expert Testimony

Paul N. Westley appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of sixteen.

Oct 13, 2020

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Breion Shequille Woodson appeals the judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of possession of a firearm by a person adjudicated delinquent for an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult and possession with intent to deliver more than forty grams of cocaine, as a party to a crime, as a second and subsequent offense.

Oct 13, 2020

Sentencing Modification

Murry Locke, pro se, appeals from an order denying his motion for sentence modification based on two allegedly new factors.

Oct 13, 2020

Estate – Motion for Recusal Denied

Richard Lauer, pro se, challenges those parts of an order that denied a petition to remove his brother, Dennis Lauer, as personal representative of their mother’s estate, and denied a motion for recusal of the judge.

Oct 13, 2020

Personal Jurisdiction

mGage, LLC, appeals the trial court’s nonfinal order denying its motion to dismiss CITGO Petroleum Corporation’s complaint on the grounds of lack of personal jurisdiction.

Oct 13, 2020

Sufficiency of Evidence

A jury found Scott Ginsberg guilty of bank fraud. On appeal, he argues there was insufficient evidence that he knowingly defrauded the banks.

Oct 13, 2020

Statutory Interpretation – Motor Carrier Act Violation

Leonid Burlaka, Timothy Keuken, Travis Frischmann, and Roger Robinson are truck drivers who brought individual, collective, and class action claims against Contract Transport Services (CTS), their former employer, for failing to provide overtime pay in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which requires overtime pay for any employee who works more than forty hours in a workweek.

Oct 13, 2020

Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement

To keep his car dealership afloat, Arthur Friedman secured loans for fake buyers of a phony inventory of cars.

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