Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Divorce-Maintenance Award
Steven Peet appeals from a judgment of divorce, challenging the circuit court’s award of maintenance to his former wife, Amity Peet, and the court’s division of the parties’ property.
Termination of parental rights
I.B. (hereinafter “Ivy”) appeals the orders of the trial court terminating her parental rights to her children, I.H. and K.H. On appeal, Ivy contends that the State failed to comply with the service requirements prescribed in WIS. STAT.
Insufficient Evidence
Cayer appeals from an order committing him to the custody of the Department of Health Services for life, following a special verdict finding that he was not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI) on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and three counts of bail jumping.
Enticement of a Minor
Michael Baird responded to an online FBI sting operation advertising the opportunity to have sex with a ten-year-old girl.
Sexual Assault
Two sisters accused Mr. Bell, a friend of their mother, of sexually assaulting them.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Mack used a US Bank credit card to make household purchases.
Employment Law
While he was an Illinois State Police (“ISP”) lieutenant, Mr. Dunn was assigned to work at the Illinois Gaming Board under an inter-governmental agreement.
Suppression of Evidence-Lawful Search
On January 14, 2022, Salazar was at a bar in Peoria, Illinois.
Insurance Coverage
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Froedtert Health, a Wisconsin-based healthcare system, found itself facing urgent and overwhelming demand to provide lifesaving care.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act slated for Congressional review
U.S. diplomats and enabling operations like last year's strike to kill a key plotter of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
China spy site in Cuba cause for concern says White House and Congress
The existence of an agreement to build a Chinese spy facility in Cuba prompted a forceful response from Capitol Hill.
Legal News
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
- Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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