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RANCHERS CATTLEMEN ACTION LEGAL FUND UNITED STOCKGROWERS OF AMERICA V. THOMAS VILSACK in his Official Capacity as Secretary of Agriculture; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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San Francisco, CA - Agricultural lawyer represented
Plaintiff-Appellant with a summary judgment in favor of federal defendants and state intervenor defendants in an action brought by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action claim.
The Beef Promotion and Research Act of 1985 (“Beef
Act”) imposes a $1 assessment, or
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Jennifer Adams v. Commonwealth Financial Systems, Inc.
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Tulsa, OK: Consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Fair Debt Collection Act violation theory.
15 U.S. Code § 1692:
There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to th
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Michael Holland v. LVNV Funding, LLC and Resurgent Capital Services, LLP
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Tulsa, OK: Consumer credit Fair Credit Reporting Act lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant claiming violation of the Fair Debt Collection Act.
15 U.S. Code § 1692:
There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptc
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CLIFFORD B. HUBBARD v. United States of America
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San Francisco, CA - Criminal defense lawyer represented Petitioner-Appellant with premeditated murder; felony murder; sodomy; and the commission of indecent, lewd, and lascivious acts with a child under the age of sixteen, charges. He no4w seeks post-conviction DNA testing.
Hubbard was charged with premeditated murder;
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United States of America v. LUKE NOEL WILSON
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San Francisco - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant
with a possession and distribution of child pornography charge.
We once again consider the application of the Fourth
Amendment’s warrant requirement to new forms of
communication technology. See, e.g., United States v. Cano,
934 F.3d 1002 (
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United States of America v. Elbert Holly
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St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
On August 5, 2017, Officers Evan Tarwater and Slade Whetro patrolled an
area of Kansas City, Missouri, which they believed had a high incidence of narcotic
sales. The officers observed a small red
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United States of America v. Emmanuel Robinson
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St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a
being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
On March 10, 2017, Detectives William Hooley and David Kellgren with the
Kansas City, Missouri Police Department went to a used car lot and repair shop in
Kansas City to speak with a man named
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United States of America v. Chase Zerba
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St. Louis, MO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiring to distribute marijuana, as well aspossessing a weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charge.
On February 1, 2017, Beener contacted Zerba to purchase a half-pound of
marijuana for $1,500, which was a much larger quantity than B
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United States of America v. Oleg Vladislavovich Nikitin
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Savannah, GA: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with scheming to evade United States national security laws.
Oleg Vladislavovich Nikitin, 54, of St. Petersburg, Russia, was charged with Conspiracy to Violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations.
“The United States sent a cle
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United States of America v. Manuela Chavez
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Chicago, IL -Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with
conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin chargers.
The evidence at trial principally consisted of testimony from law enforcement officers and the informant Slater,
as well as the recording
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United States of America v. Jesse Ballard
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Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
Ballard pleaded guilty in this case to being a felon in possession of a firearm. This is, of course, a very serious and potentially dangerous crime.
At the first sentencing hearing, on October 22, 2018, the <
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United States of America v. Edward Soybel
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Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with f 12 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges.
Industrial-supply company
W.W. Grainger was the victim of a series of cyberattacks
against its computer systems in 2016. Grainger isolated the
source of the intrusions to a si
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United States of America v. Mohammad Milon Hossain
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Houston, TX: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented individuals from Mexico into the United States.
Between March 2017 and June 2019, Mohamad Milon Hossain, 41, a Bangladeshi national formerly residing in Tapachula, Mexico, conspired with and assisted human smugglers operating out of Bangladesh, South and Central America, a
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United States of America v. Peter Combs
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges.
Jankie Jackson ran a cocaine distribution ring with customers in central and eastern
Kentucky. Peter Combs joined Jackson’s operation. The ring was eventually fo
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United States of America v. Terry Reed
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with one count of possession with the intent to distribute marijuana1; two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime; and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm charges.
Officers with the police department
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United States of America v. Brent Edington
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to make false statements to influence the Farm Services Agency. The government appeals the district court’s dismissal of a felony information charging Brent Edington with 'Conspiracy to violate or knowingly making of false statements or willfully overvaluing any property or sec
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United States of America v. Jankie Jackson
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges.
Jankie Jackson ran a cocaine distribution ring with customers in central and eastern
Kentucky. Peter Combs joined Jackson’s operation. The ring was eventually fo
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Vitalina Lucas Lopez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented Petitioner after an Immigration Judge (IJ) issued an in absentia removal order. She now now petitions for review of that decision
Vitalina Lopez is a native and citizen of Guatemala who entered the United States in the
1990s without admission or parole. In 2003
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NICOLE MARIE SWIGER v. JOEL ROSETTE, et al.
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Predatory Loan lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with a predatory loan claim.
Swiger alleges that she fell victim to an illegal “rent-a-tribe” scheme when she accepted a
$1200 loan at an interest rate exceeding 350% from online lender Plain Green LLC—an entity
owned by and organized
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United States of America v. Mohamed Salat Haji
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Grand Rapids, MI: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
On January 21, 2019, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and members of its Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Mohamed Salat Haji, ate 28, at the Gerald R.
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United States of America v. Jennifer Riccardi
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with stealing 1,505 gift cards from the mail charge.
In September 2017, an Ohioan mailed a $25 Starbucks gift card from the City of Mentor
in northeast Ohio. The gift card never reached its destination at an address in nearby Parma.
The sender com
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ROBERT W. BETHEL v. CHARLOTTE JENKINS, Warden; MICHAEL ALLEN
EIRING, Lieutenant; TIMOTHY SHOOP, Warden
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented an incarcerated inmate with a CCI policy—prohibiting inmates from receiving packages ordered by third parties from unapproved vendors claim.
Bethel is presently incarcerated at CCI in Chillicothe, Ohio, serving a capital sentence.
On February 6, 2015, pu
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IN RE: JAMES HANNA
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with direct appeal and state postconviction remedies for a death sentence.
Hanna was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. He exhausted directappeal and state postconviction remedies, then filed a federal habeas corpus petition, which
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United States of America v. JOSH SMALL (20-5117); JONI AMBER JOHNSON
(20-5120)
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with aiding and abetting a kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges.
In 2018, Small and Johnson were indicted for aiding and abetting a kidnapping and
conspiracy to commit kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1), (c). At tri
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United States of America v. Demetrius Brooks
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
Because the district court denied Brooks’s motion to suppress and the jury convicted him,
we recount the facts in the light most favorable to the prosecution. See United States v. Maya,
966
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