Child Placement Modification – Change of Circumstances
Amber Michelizzi appeals an order providing Charles Smiley with shared legal custody and increased physical placement of their children.
Evidentiary Hearing – Vindictive Prosecution
Rodney Lass appeals a judgment entered on jury verdicts convicting him of seven felonies and two misdemeanors, all as domestic abuse violations.
OWI – Suppression of Evidence
Christann Spannraft, pro se, appeals her judgments of conviction for operating while intoxicated (OWI), first offense, and operating without required lamps lighted.
Immigration – Removal Order
Yeison Meza Morales is a native and citizen of Mexico who entered the United States without inspection as a child.
Jury Instructions
Jeremy Wade hoped to reacquaint himself with a girl he knew in high school so he could ask her for a date.
Subject-matter Jurisdiction
Maria Dijamco came to the United States from the Philippines and sought lawful status to stay in the country through her mother who had a green card.
Title VII Violation – Discrimination Claim
Lisa Purtue was fired from her job as a Wisconsin correctional officer for falsely claiming that a prisoner hit her with an empty snack cake box that he threw from his cell.
Time-barred – Legal Malpractice Claim
Elizabeth Ruckelshaus appeals the district court’s determination that Indiana’s statute of limitations bars her legal malpractice claim.
Qualified Immunity
When a prison official knows that an inmate faces a substantial risk of serious harm, the Eighth Amendment requires that official to take reasonable measures to abate the risk.
ALJ Error – Disability Benefits
David Daugherty, an administrative law judge hearing disability-benefits applications for the Social Security Administration, supplemented his salary by taking bribes.
Abuse of Discretion – Motion for Summary Judgment on Exhaustion
The Federal Reporter is replete with examples of prisoners losing cases because they missed litigation deadlines and courts extended little forgiveness.
Insurance Claim – Garnishment Order
This appeal represents the culmination of more than ten years of litigation between a group of neighbors in Elkhart, Indiana and a nearby wood recycling facility.
Legal News
- Man arrested in death of 4-year-old was previously convicted of killing another pedestrian
- Justice Department strengthens efforts, builds partnerships to address the crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons
- Wisconsin lawyers file University of Wisconsin public records request seeking answers to protests
- Wisconsin Supreme Court issues orders amending Supreme Court rules and Wis. Stats.
- EXCLUSIVE: Former Milwaukee ‘big law’ partner attacks news media for bias against Trump
- Former Milwaukee election official fined for obtaining fake absentee ballots
- Contract dispute prevents airing of 15 regional sports networks, impacts Brewers
- Wis. middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting
- Gov. Evers seeks applicants for Sheboygan and Green County Sheriffs
- North Carolina man who harbored Nazi memorabilia and attacked Black and Latino men sentenced to 41 months
- Nation grieves with families of officers killed in NC
- Amended complaint filed in federal court against State Bar of Wisconsin seeks punitive damages
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