POSTED: Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 9:24 am

BY: Associated Press

A judge has lowered bail for a Madison truck driver and his wife who are accused of starving and torturing the man’s 15-year-old daughter.

POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 3:43 pm

BY: Associated Press

A federal judge has ruled that Wisconsin public union members must proactively tell the state to subtract dues from their paychecks.

POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 2:53 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed next term to take up cases dealing with sufficiency of evidence and parental rights.

POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 2:07 pm

BY: SYLVIA HSIEH

Lap-Band maker Allergan has been subpoenaed by the U.S. government over problems with the weight loss device.

POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 12:49 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

Rob Teuber knows most people don’t associate tax law with hard rock, but for the attorney with Weiss Berzowski Brady LLP, the two are a compatible blend.

POSTED: Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 11:23 am

BY: Kirsten Klahn

Four Morrison residents on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against town officials for prohibiting residents from placing signs with political or religious messages on their property, according to a Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty news release.

POSTED: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 3:00 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

A brief phone call or letter is often all that is needed for people to access arrest records or find out who signed a recall petition.

POSTED: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

A divorced taxpayer was required to report as income her share of her former husband’s disability pay, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled in upholding a $3,587 deficiency assessment.

POSTED: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 1:36 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

Congress has passed legislation that will temporarily save dozens of bankruptcy judgeships in 14 states and Puerto Rico from expiring.

POSTED: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 11:26 am

BY: Associated Press

Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she’d be dead if it weren’t for President Barack Obama’s health care law.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 5:32 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

Campaign contributions, arrest records and recall petition signatures are all available for public view in Wisconsin, but the state’s Board of Bars Examiners is not subject to the same visibility when it comes to supplying information on bar exam applicants.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 4:59 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

The State Bar will have to do some rewriting in order to get Wisconsin Supreme Court approval of a proposed bylaw change altering the path for challenges to dues spending.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 3:50 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

The state Supreme Court delayed a decision Wednesday on a proposal to formalize a process in which foreign-educated lawyers would be eligible to take the Wisconsin bar exam, pending further review of the criteria.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 12:09 pm

BY: Associated Press

Dredging has resumed on the polluted Fox River after a federal appeals court denied NCR’s request for a temporary stay.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 11:50 am

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

A debt collector may have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when its automated dialing system contacted cell phone users with reassigned numbers, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 11:33 am

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

A doctor who made a non-negligent misdiagnosis regarding an emergency room patient with stroke-like symptoms could be liable for failing to inform the patient about the availability of a non-invasive diagnostic test that would have definitively identified his condition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 4:31 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

Michael Guetzke didn’t get as much money as he says he was owed but insists his 15-month pursuit of Arteaga Construction Inc. to settle a construction bill was worth it.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 2:23 pm

BY: Associated Press

A Milwaukee County judge has postponed the sentencing of a former Scott Walker aide convicted of two misdemeanors.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 1:49 pm

BY: Associated Press

A law firm has charged the University of Wisconsin-Madison about $43,700 to investigate an athletic official who resigned amid a sexual-assault investigation.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 1:22 pm

BY: DAVID E FRANK

Any hope the families of two of James “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged victims may have had that the U.S. Supreme Court would hear their appeal have come to an end.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 9:52 am

BY: Associated Press

A jury has been selected to hear a fraud trial against the Green Bay Catholic Diocese.

POSTED: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 9:14 am

BY: Associated Press

A Madison truck driver and his wife are due back in court this week on allegations they starved and tortured the man’s 15-year-old daughter.

POSTED: Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 3:03 pm

BY: Associated Press

A former Wisconsin prosecutor accused of sending racy text messages to a domestic abuse victim has filed for bankruptcy.

POSTED: Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 2:08 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The federal income tax liability resulting from the sale of a farm after a Chapter 12 bankruptcy filing is not “incurred by the estate” under §503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and thus is neither collectible nor dischargeable in the bankruptcy plan, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.

POSTED: Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 1:36 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

Earlier this month, news that a well-known, highly respected director of Michigan’s State Appellate Defender Office had resigned after being confronted with evidence of inappropriate workplace Internet surfing stunned the legal community.

POSTED: Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 1:13 pm

BY: Associated Press

Local governments can ban concealed weapons at all manner of polling sites, from city halls to assisted living facilities, state election officials have concluded.

POSTED: Sunday, May 13th, 2012 at 11:21 pm

BY: SYLVIA HSIEH

Since last year, when generic drug makers won a victory on the issue of federal preemption before the U.S. Supreme Court, lower courts have been dismissing cases against generic drug makers left and right.

POSTED: Sunday, May 13th, 2012 at 11:17 pm

BY: Associated Press

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, after an Outagamie County judge denied the diocese’s latest attempt to have the case dismissed.

POSTED: Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 5:07 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

Milwaukee attorney John Dawson, head of the commission working to discipline state Justice David Prosser, won’t be returning once his term expires Aug. 1.

POSTED: Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 3:41 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

A Milwaukee resident is claiming more than $50,000 in damage to his home as a result of nearby construction on Interstate 94.