Beal v. Foster
An inmate of a Wisconsin state prison filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that Schneider, a guard, had inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on him. The district court dismissed the complaint at...
View ArticleNat’l Labor Relations Bd. v. Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar bought a South Milwaukee factory that manufactures strip-mining equipment and became the employer party to a collective-bargaining agreement with a United Steelworkers local union. Two...
View ArticleHenderson v. Wilcoxen
After serving a term in an Illinois state prison for a sex crime, the plaintiff was committed to a Treatment and Detention Facility, pursuant to the civil Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. He...
View ArticleArroyo v. Volvo Grp. N. Am., LLC
Arroyo worked as a Volvo material handler, 2005-2011. Arroyo was a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. She deployed twice to Iraq and Kuwait: 2006-2007 and 2009-2010 and took leave for training and other...
View ArticleManuel v. Terris
In 2010 Manuel was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 51 months in federal prison, with “credit for not less than all the time he has spent in federal custody” since May 24, 2010. That was the date...
View ArticleDawson v. Brown
Officer Stirmell followed a speeding pickup truck and activated his sirens. The driver, Greg, ignored the sirens and continued driving. Stirmell radioed for assistance. Greg drove to his father’s...
View ArticleBurton v. Downey
Burton had been treated for back pain, anxiety, acid reflux, herpes simplex, hyperlipidemia, and depression. In addition to other medications, he was intermittently prescribed an opioid pain medication...
View ArticleDarinchuluun v. Lynch
Darinchuluun, a citizen of Mongolia, has a wife and son in Mongolia. He worked for a railroad that was a joint venture between Russia and Mongolia. In 2004 Darinchuluun discovered guns and ammunition...
View ArticleUnited States v. Burnett
A vehicle search turned up 11.4 grams of heroin that Fields had obtained from Burnett. Fields called Burnett and said the heroin had been seized and asked Burnett to leave guns in a certain trash can...
View ArticleHelicopters, Inc. v. Nat’l Transp. Safety Bd.
In 2014, two people were killed when a Seattle news helicopter crashed. The National Transportation Safety Board investigated, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 1131(a)(1), “to ascertain measures that would best...
View ArticleBrandt v. Horseshoe Hammond, LLC
In 1997, Player and his wife established EAR, purportedly to refurbish high-tech machinery . In 2005-2009, EAR defrauded creditors and the couple obtained $17 million in fraudulent transfers from EAR....
View ArticleUnited States v. Faruki
Faruki, a computer technology consultant, met Tishfield in 2006 while Tishfield was working as a portfolio manager at SAC Capital, a Connecticut-based hedge fund. In 2010, Faruki informed Tishfield...
View ArticleUnited States v. Mullins
Mullins lived in apartment 2 in the complex behind the BigFoot Lounge in Rockford, Illinois. Mullins and Washington (called “T”) used Mullins’s apartment as a stash house for their cocaine and...
View ArticleIll. League of Advocates for Developmentally Disabled v. Ill. Dep’t of Human...
The Centralia state-operated developmental center, one of seven Illinois SODCs, houses approximately 200 severely disabled individuals, some having the mentality of an infant or toddler. Many also...
View ArticleWoods v. City of Berwyn
Woods told a coworker at the Berwyn Fire Department that “he wanted to kill somebody, all of them” and that his children were going to “go over there” and “tune them up,” referring to his coworkers and...
View ArticleVallejo v. United States
In 2005, Martinez, Vallejo, and 47 others were indicted for crimes committed while they were members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Latin Kings gang organization. Martinez and Vallejo pled guilty to a...
View ArticleGustafson v. Adkins
In 2007, Adkins, a detective at a Chicago Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, installed a hidden surveillance camera in the ceiling of an office used by female officers as a changing area. The camera...
View ArticleUnited States v. Hawkins
Two men robbed a Chicago bank. When Warfield was arrested on the day of the robbery, he told the FBI that he had robbed the bank with Hawkins. Hawkins and Warfield were indicted. During Warfield’s...
View ArticleBarrett v. Ill. Dep’t of Corrs.
In 1995 Barrett began work at the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) as an account technician. IDOC employees can be fired if they accumulate 12 unauthorized absences from work; unauthorized...
View ArticleOhio Nat’l Life Assurance Corp. v. Davis
Morady sold life insurance policies. Davis, a former lawyer, approached elderly African-Americans and paid them small amounts to become the nominal applicant-buyers of the policies, with Morady as the...
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