An appeals court has rejected a Minnesota man’s challenge to his life sentence for a fatal club shooting in downtown La Crosse.
A state appeals court says a school bus driver accused of sexually assaulting a student deserves a new trial.
A state appeals court says a West Bend man’s statements about sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl should have been suppressed.
A federal appeals court has dismissed a Wisconsin woman’s lawsuit against Google Inc. alleging that it was using her name to generate revenue through online advertising.
A state appeals court dismissed a lawsuit Thursday demanding state workers get paid sabbatical days to offset mandatory furloughs ordered by then-Gov. Jim Doyle in 2009.
A recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision tackled the case of a widower fighting for control of his three children.
A Wisconsin appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Waupun man convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager.
A state appeals court has rejected Brendan Dassey’s request for a new trial on charges that he helped kill a young woman in 2005 in one of Wisconsin’s most notorious crimes.
The Berlin Area School District’s lawsuit over its high school mascot is on hold following a recent ruling involving a similar case.
A state appeals court says a man accused of plotting to kill his lover’s husband was properly convicted.
Wisconsin’s domestic partnership registry is constitutional, a state appeals court ruled in a decision released Friday that marks a major victory for the state’s largest gay rights group.
A vicious snowstorm has forced a state appeals court to delay releasing a ruling on whether Wisconsin’s domestic partnership registry.
A state appeals court has granted a new trial for an Eau Claire man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl.
A federal appeals court in Chicago heard arguments Monday on the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s law restricting collective bargaining by public employees – one of several related appeals working their way through the courts.
A judge wrongly dismissed a sexual assault case marred by sloppy police work, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to take up a case challenging Wisconsin’s domestic partnership law until an appeals court has heard the case.
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is trying to convince a state appeals court that photo identification isn’t a burden for voters.
A state appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Racine woman who offered a friend $50,000 and a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle to kill her husband.
I recently gave the Wisconsin Court of Appeals credit for changing, perhaps intentionally or inadvertently, one of the sillier family law rules in Wisconsin with its decision in Tierney v. Berger, No. 2011AP565.
A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld the homicide conviction of a Madison-area baby sitter for causing the death of an infant in her care in 2007.
Enough new evidence exists to cast doubt on the guilt of a man convicted of killing an 18-year-old woman and hanging her naked body from a tree in 1987, a Wisconsin appeals court said Wednesday.
High school graduations in a southeastern Wisconsin church adorned with religious symbols and literature violated the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
A Wisconsin appeals court says a lawsuit that former Veterans Affairs Secretary John Scocos filed against the state may continue.
A Wausau man accused of savagely beating a woman a dozen years ago was properly convicted, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
A Wisconsin appeals court says a wrongly jailed man can seek reimbursement from the state.
The Supreme Court says it will consider shutting down a legal challenge to a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas communications.
Dredging has resumed on the polluted Fox River after a federal appeals court denied NCR’s request for a temporary stay.
Environmental groups urged an appeals court on Wednesday to block Shell from drilling 10 new deep-water wells off Alabama’s coast, arguing that federal regulators haven’t properly reviewed the risks of undersea drilling in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
Appeals judges are recommending the Wisconsin Supreme Court hear the case of a Wisconsin couple convicted of reckless homicide in the 2008 death of their daughter.
Appeals courts sent two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s blocked new voter ID law directly to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, determining it was imperative to resolve the cases quickly given the slate of important upcoming elections, including the state’s presidential primaries next week.
