Taylor v. Colvin
Taylor has an IQ of 70-75. In her twenties, living with her mother, and never having worked, Taylor needs help to get dressed, wash her hair, and take her medications. She can do simple household...
View ArticleKing v. Comm’r of Internal Revenue
King, now deceased, was a lawyer. For several years he failed to pay his quarterly payroll taxes. The IRS stated that it would grant his request for an installment payment plan, but requested...
View ArticleUnited States v. Dorsey
n 2008, Dorsey, a convicted drug felon, sold 5.5 grams of crack cocaine. He was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, the mandatory minimum under the 1986 Drug Act; the court declined to apply the 2010...
View ArticleChesemore v. Fenkell
Trachte, a Wisconsin manufacturer, established an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) in the mid-1980s. In the late 1990s, Fenkell and his company, Alliance, began buying ESOP-owned, closely-held...
View ArticlePhoenix Ent. Partners, LLC v. Rumsey
Slep-Tone has filed more than 150 suits under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051, challenging the unauthorized copying and performance of its commercial karaoke files. In addition to the registered Sound...
View ArticleWhite v. City of Chicago
From 2008-2010, the FBI and Chicago Police Department conducted a narcotics investigation, “Operation Blue Knight.” As the operation was wrapping up, Officer O’Donnell applied for dozens of arrest...
View ArticlePoullard v. McDonald
Since 2004, Poullard, an African-American man, has worked at the North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center as a training specialist. He received a promotion to the GS‐11 pay grade in 2006, but...
View ArticleFlournoy v. City of Chicago
Chicago police learned from an informant that Anthony was selling crack cocaine from his apartment and answered the door carrying a handgun during drug transactions. They obtained a search warrant. The...
View ArticlePyles v. Nwaobasi
In 2009, Pyles fell down a wet staircase and injured his back while incarcerated at Menard. Since then he has experienced numbness and radiating pain. In 2012, Pyles twice saw Dr.Nwaobasi, an employee...
View ArticleUnited States v. Eberts
Eberts is a film producer whose credits include Lord of War (2005) and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). After a string of failed movies, in 2009, he filed for bankruptcy. He was introduced to Elliott, an...
View ArticleUnited States v. Robinson
Robinson’s cousin, Carter, led a heroin trafficking ring, buying heroin in Chicago and selling it in Milwaukee, 2012-2014. For two months in 2014, Carter brought Robinson into the operation, just as...
View ArticleRiley v. Elkhart Cmty. Schs.
Elkhart Community Schools (ECS), has employed Riley, an African‐American female, as a teacher since 1980. She has an administrator’s license and is pursuing her doctorate in education. In 2010, she was...
View ArticleFiggs v. Dawson
In 1993, Figgs was convicted of murder, committed while on bond for a drug offense. His 40-year sentence was to be served consecutively to his four-year sentence for the drug offense and was to include...
View ArticleCole v. Colvin
In 2000, while working as a welder, Cole (then in his 20s) broke his left arm and wrist, requiring insertion of a metal plate and screws in his arm. He experienced pain that has still not gone away. In...
View ArticleU.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n v. Collins-Fuller T.
In 2012, U.S. Bank, which has its main office in Ohio, filed a diversity suit asking for a foreclosure judgment on the mortgage of a residential property owned by the Fullers, citizens of Illinois, and...
View ArticleWittman v. Koenig
The Koenigs filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2014, claiming exemptions under Wisconsin’s bankruptcy exemption statute for three annuities then worth a total of $292,185.97. The annuities...
View ArticleBerg v. New York Life Ins. Co.
Berg was a long‐time pit broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In 1991 and 1994, Berg bought disability‐income insurance policies. In 2005, he started to experience a tremor in his arms and hands,...
View ArticleKennedy v. Huibregtse
A Wisconsin state prison inmate filed suit, in forma pauperis (28 U.S.C. 1915(a)), against prison doctors, alleging deliberate indifference to the plaintiff’s medical needs, in violation of 42 U.S.C....
View ArticleUnited States v. Ray
When he was 29, Ray started to chat over the Internet with a 14-year-old girl. At their first in-person meeting Ray plied Alexia with marijuana and cognac. At their second he took her to a motel...
View ArticleGriswold v. Zeddun
Wierzbicki owned a 40‐acre Wisconsin farm, where she lived for a time with her three minor children and their father, Griswold. In 2012 Wierzbicki gave Griswold a quitclaim deed to the farm. Fourteen...
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