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Apr 26, 2021

Supreme Court approves mandatory appellate e-filing

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has approved a rule petition to make e-filing mandatory in the appellate courts.

Jul 1, 2020

RUSH TO EVICT: Filings increase 30% since statewide moratorium’s end

It’s been a busy month for Legal Action of Wisconsin, which offers free legal help to low-income tenants who are threatened with eviction.

Jun 1, 2020

JFC approves adding 20 new positions to manage CCAP

Wisconsin is adding 20 new employees to manage the state's CCAP services.

May 11, 2020

JFC considering request to add 20 new positions to manage CCAP

Wisconsin's Joint Committee on Finance is considering a request to add 20 new positions to manage the state's CCAP services.

Oct 28, 2019

Wisconsin lawmakers seeking to expunge marijuana convictions

When the Madison barber and business owner Brian Britt, 42, stepped up to a folding table in the entryway of the Urban League of Greater Madison, he had a single goal in his mind: Wipe from his record the decades-old criminal convictions he says are holding him back.

Jul 19, 2019

Power station fires knock out courts, Capitol, CCAP

Fires at two transmission substations in Wisconsin's capital knocked out power to more than 11,000 customers on a sweltering day, shutting down government buildings, courtrooms and businesses and prompting police to call in additional staff.

Mar 22, 2017

Panel votes to purge cases from state online court database (UPDATE)

Wisconsin's courts director is considering removing records of criminal cases that ended in dismissal or acquittals from the state's popular online courts database within months, rather than decades, out of concern that people are abusing the information.

Apr 25, 2016

After seven years, State Bar to revisit proposed changes to expunction

John Birdsall has seen it happen again and again in his 20-plus years of criminal-defense practice: A client is charged with a crime but never convicted.

Mar 17, 2016

E-filing gets official green light, but not without bumps (UPDATE)

Mandatory e-filing in circuit courts will be the law of the land in Wisconsin starting July 1, but making it officially so proved to be a monumental task for the state’s highest court on Thursday.

Feb 23, 2016

High court gives preliminary OK to mandatory e-filing

Officials from Wisconsin's trial courts encouraged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to green light mandatory e-filing throughout the state.

Oct 28, 2015

Push continues to increase filing fees

A proposal to increase the fees charged filers of small-claims lawsuits could help county clerks around the state fill budgetary holes resulting from a fairly recent change to the claims limit on civil cases.

Jul 2, 2015

Republicans propose limiting public access to records (UPDATE)

Nearly all records created by state lawmakers, including bill drafts and communications with staff, would not be subject to the Wisconsin open records law under a sweeping surprise change Republicans introduced in committee Thursday as an amendment to the state budget.

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