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113 F.Supp.2d 1211 (2000) Glenn VERSER, Plaintiff, v. Willard ELYEA, Hazel Lovett, James Page, Joseph Smith, Dr. Aguinaldo and Donald Snyder, Defendants. No. 99 C 7375. United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division. July 27, 2000. *1212 *1213 Wendi E. Sloan, Heather J. Green, B

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ELAINE E. BUCKLO, District Judge. On January 10, 2010, Glenn Verser, an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center (“Stateville”), filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit pro se against various Stateville staff, including its medical director, alleging inter alia that he was denied adequate medical *1030care

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 116,670 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JOHN CHRISTOPHER HARRISON, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 22-3420(d) allows criminal trial judges the

KANNE, Circuit Judge. Wendell Weaver was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to forty *881years' imprisonment. In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, he alleges that his constitutional rights were violated by the trial court's disqualification of his counsel of choice, the ineffective assistance of his replacement counsel, the st

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 16‐2400 WENDELL WEAVER, Petitioner‐Appellant, v. WALTER NICHOLSON,* Respondent‐Appellee.

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 16‐2400 WENDELL WEAVER, Petitioner‐Appellant, v. WALTER NICHOLSON,* Respondent‐Appellee.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 112,513 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. MATTHEW R. MCDANIEL, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. A criminal defendant's right to be present at every criti

Hunt, J. (dissenting) — I respectfully dissent. I disagree with the majority that J.S. was “unavailable” as a witness for purposes of the child hearsay statute, RCW 9A.44.120.1 would hold that admission of the child hearsay was reversible error. In order for a trial court to admit hearsay statements of a child under the age of 10, (1) there must be sufficient indicia of reliability, and (2) the child must either

The opinion of the court was delivered by LuCKERT, J.: In this tragic case, an infant died from respiratory failure after becoming trapped between the mattress and footboard of an adult bed at his daycare provider’s home. The State filed criminal charges, and a jury convicted daycare provider Michelle Bolze-Sann of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated endangering a child. Bolze-Sann appealed and before us

Per Curiam: *873 Awnterio Dwan Lowery appeals his jury trial convictions for the premeditated first-degree murder of Tiffany Davenport-Ray (Davenport-Ray), the attempted premeditated first-degree murder of Melvin Ray (Ray), criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling, possession

ROVNER, Circuit Judge. After a one-day trial, a jury rejected federal prisoner John Perotti’s claim that his promotion from education orderly to law clerk was delayed in retaliation for his history of filing administrative grievances. Perotti appeals, contending that the district court abused its discretion in denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum and

207 F.Supp.2d 848 (2002) Arthur L. JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Roger D. COWAN, Warden, Respondent. No. 00-2171. United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Danville/Urbana Division. June 21, 2002. *849 Arthur L. Johnson, Menard, IL, Pro se. Huma A. Khan, Chicago, IL, for Defendant. ORDER McCUSKE

KANNE, Circuit Judge.. Chicago Police Department officer Glenn Lewellen arrested drug dealer Saul Rodriguez in 1996 and eventually turned him into an informant. By 1998, the two had established a more lucrative arrangement: Rodriguez, would collect information about local drug dealers, and then Lewel-len would make a seemingly legitimate detention of the dealers and rob them of

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 99-2154 Harold Shasteen, James Shasteen and Dan Shasteen, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Howard W. Saver, Director of Southern Illinois Community Correctional Center, Respondent-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, East St. Louis Division. No. 95 C 216--Gerald B. Cohn, Magistrate Judge. Argued April 12, 2001--Decided June 5, 2001 Before Flaum, Chief Judge, and Manio

946 S.W.2d 954 (1997) 329 Ark. 274 Alan MINOR, individually, and d/b/a Minor Manufacturing, Inc., Appellant, v. J.P. FAILLA, individually and in his capacity as Councilman for the City of Gould, Arkansas, and Robert Stephens, individually and in his capacity as Councilman for the City of Gould, Arkansas, Appellees. No. 96-1265. Supreme Court of Arkansas.

FLAUM, Chief Judge. On March 10, 1995, the Shasteens filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, asserting various claims. The district court denied all of these, but issued a certificate of appealability with regard to their prosecutorial misconduct claim. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm.

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 718 Denying writ of prohibition in first case, and affirming in second case. These two cases, Luther F. Scholl et al. v. Lafon Allen, Judge, on a petition filed in this court for a writ of prohibition, and Luther F. Scholl et al. v. James B. Brown et al., on appeal, were ordered consolidated and heard together.

OPINION OF THE COURT W. Dennis Duggan, J. In this case, the Court holds that a child has an independent, constitutionally guaranteed right to maintain contact1 with a person with whom the child has developed a parent-like relationship.2 That right is constitutionally guaranteed because it is a fundamental liberty encompassed wit

226 S.W.2d 786 (1950) 312 Ky. 145 GRIFFIN v. LOUISVILLE TRUST CO. Court of Appeals of Kentucky. February 3, 1950. James T. Robertson, Louisville, for appellant. J. Verser Conner, Louisville (deceased), Brown, Greenebaum & Eldred, Louisville, for appellee. SIMS, Chief Justice. In a suit to settle the estate of William Mann, deceased, M

Reversing. The appeals of Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District and the City of Louisville v. Bond Brothers and the B. F. Goodrich Company, seek to reverse judgments that no power was reposed in the appellant to establish a different rate of sewer service charges for property located outside the limits of Louisville than within. The judgments in that relation are reversed for the reasons given in the cases of the Louisville Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer Dis