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Professional Responsibility — revocation (access required)

POSTED: Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 11:45 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2013AP732-D OLR v. Brown

State’s judges in middle of pack for pay (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 1:21 pm

BY: Joe Yovino, joe.yovino@wislawjournal.com

One way or another, the approximately 300 judges in Minnesota are getting a raise next year. There are no such raises, however, planned for Wisconsin judges.

Criminal Procedure — right to testify — waiver (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 1:05 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2010AP2516-CR State v. Hunt

Employment — veterans preferences (access required)

2012AP650 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System et al. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission

Motor Vehicles – OWI — probable cause (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 1:03 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP1663 State v. Ranta

Trusts and Estates – trustees — removal (access required)

2012AP1817 In the Matter of the Gerhard G. Poehling Family Trust et al. v. Trust Point Inc.

Motor Vehicles – OWI — probable cause (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 1:01 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP2216 Village of Muscoda v. Anderson

Juveniles – TPR — abandonment (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 1:00 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2013AP462 In re the termination of parental rights to T.J.

Professional Responsibility — suspension (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 12:59 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2013AP133-D OLR v. Stanek

AG finds excavating business liable for environmental violations (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 10:45 am

BY: Beth Kevit, beth.kevit@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office found Schmitt Challenges Inc., Beaver Dam, and owner Carl Schmitt liable for $70,000 in fines and court costs related to environmental violations.

Supreme Court treads carefully in patent ruling (access required)

POSTED: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 1:38 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The U.S. Supreme Court’s surgically narrow ruling prohibiting a farmer from using seeds harvested from patented herbicide-resistant soybeans has left lawyers with more questions than answers about the extent of patent owners’ rights in other emerging, self-replicating technologies.

Sentencing — supervisor enhancement (access required)

POSTED: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 12:40 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

11-3098 U.S. v. Collins

Rule changes would deal with discovery (access required)

POSTED: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 10:59 am

BY: Correy Stephenson, Dolan Newswires

Lawyers are concerned that discovery is getting out of hand.

Who’s Doing What: New hires across Milwaukee (access required)

Anthony Anzelmo and David Eckhardt have joined Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC, Milwaukee.

US Supreme Court clarifies bankruptcy discharge standard (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:43 am

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

The U.S. Supreme Court has clarified that proof of malicious intent is not required to prevent the bankruptcy discharge of a debt that arose from a trustee’s self-dealing.

US Supreme Court more diverse than Supreme Court bar (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:38 am

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The U.S. Supreme Court is more diverse than ever. But the same can’t be said for the group of attorneys who argued before the justices this term.

Employment – discrimination — punitive damages (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:08 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

11-3000 & 11-3109 Otto v. Chrysler Group LLC

Civil Procedure – settlement — breach (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:07 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2011AP160 Carstensen et al. v. Goeckner et al.

Criminal Procedure — ineffective assistance — prosecutorial misconduct (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:06 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP350 State v. Hawley

Property — railroad easements — reversion (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:05 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP424 Kees v. Northern States Power Company et al.

FIPOF — sufficiency of the evidence (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:04 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP1008-CR State v. Jackson

Remedies — harassment injunctions — sufficiency of the evidence (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:03 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP1358 Williams v. Brudos

Criminal Procedure — new trials — ineffective assistance (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:02 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP1672-CR State v. Howlett

Torts – negligence — summary judgment (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:01 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP1725 Williams et al. v. Milwaukee Transport Services Inc. et al.

Sentencing – probation — maximum length (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:00 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP2154-CR State v. Loos

Property — prescriptive easements — permissive use (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 10:57 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

2012AP2415 Allen v. Woelfel Family Revocable Trust et al.

County officials disagree on specialty court (access required)

POSTED: Monday, May 13th, 2013 at 2:43 pm

BY: Jonathan Anderson

Tensions ignited recently over the use of specialized treatment courts in Wisconsin.

Report: Patent pools may stifle competition (access required)

POSTED: Monday, May 13th, 2013 at 2:33 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

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Patent pools, designed to spur innovation and reduce the cost of litigation, may actually be having anticompetitive effects according to a report released by the former competition policy director for the Federal Trade Commission.

Analysis: Appellate court supports Budget Repair Law’s mandatory increases (access required)

POSTED: Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 2:39 pm

BY: James Nicodemus

When Eau Claire County required most of its employees to chip in more for retirement contributions and health care premiums, Sheriff Ronald Cramer and Treasurer Larry Lokken wanted the boosted deductions stopped.

Employers brace for in-person investigations over FMLA (access required)

POSTED: Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 1:53 pm

BY: SYLVIA HSIEH, Dolan Media Newswires

All in attendance sat up and took notice when midway through a three-day conference on employment compliance, a branch chief of the U.S. Department of Labor’s enforcement division said that the agency expects to increase on-site investigations into whether companies are complying with the Family and Medical Leave Act.

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