Recent Articles from Associated Press
Milwaukee Mayor Johnson discusses Milwaukee’s legal and crime challenges and opportunities
By Steve Schuster [email protected] Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson stood before a room full of journalists at the Milwaukee Press Club Thursday discussing recent victories including preventing the city from going bankrupt through the levying of a local 2% sales tax, and a significant drop in the city’s homicides rate. Although with the successes he and […]
Gov. Evers Appoints Jillian Pfeifer as Oneida County District Attorney
Pfeifer lives near Rhinelander with her family and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University Law School.
Gov. Evers Appoints Angela Palmer-Fisher as Vernon County District Attorney
Palmer-Fisher is a sole practitioner who has also served as the court commissioner for Vernon County Circuit Court Judge Darcy J. Rood since 2017.
Gov. Evers Appoints Ian Mickelson as Grant County District Attorney
Mickelson has been an assistant state public defender since 2019, starting in the Kenosha office before transferring to Lancaster, where he represents indigent clients in Grant and surrounding counties.
The coming wave of PFAS litigation?
Over time, PFAS was added to millions of everyday products: shampoo, dental floss, cosmetics, clothes, carpeting, sofas, pizza boxes, food wrappers, cookware and rain gear.
FBI Director defends against GOP criticism
This new dynamic has forced Democrats into a position of defending these law enforcement agencies they have long criticized.
FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill
Approval marks the first daily oral contraceptive pill approved for use in the U.S. without a prescription.
Community pharmacies see big win against Pharmacy Benefit Manager OptumRX
A Philadelphia lawyer who is representing more than 70 Wisconsin community pharmacies has won a recent case in Marinette County against big pharma manager OptumRx, the nation's third largest Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM).
DOJ says no criminal charges against Mequon Police in shooting that killed 86-year-old man
Wisconsin DOJ officials and Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol said no criminal charges for Mequon Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an 86-year-old man.
Gov. Evers appoints Teresa Chrisman as Florence County Sheriff
Chrisman has been a sheriff’s deputy in the Florence County Sheriff’s Office since 2001 and for the past two years, has served as chief deputy.
Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code
The nation’s highest court operates without an ethics code, instead following what Chief Justice John Roberts has referred to as a set of foundational “ethics principles and practices.”
Trump can be held liable in defamation suit
The Justice Department on Tuesday said that Donald Trump can be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape – a reversal of its position that Trump was protected because he was president when he made the remarks.
Legal News
- Wisconsin lawyers file University of Wisconsin public records request seeking answers to protests
- Wisconsin Supreme Court issues orders amending Supreme Court rules and Wis. Stats.
- EXCLUSIVE: Former Milwaukee ‘big law’ partner attacks news media for bias against Trump
- Former Milwaukee election official fined for obtaining fake absentee ballots
- Contract dispute prevents airing of 15 regional sports networks, impacts Brewers
- Wis. middle school focuses on recovery as authorities investigate shooting
- Gov. Evers seeks applicants for Sheboygan and Green County Sheriffs
- North Carolina man who harbored Nazi memorabilia and attacked Black and Latino men sentenced to 41 months
- Nation grieves with families of officers killed in NC
- Amended complaint filed in federal court against State Bar of Wisconsin seeks punitive damages
- United Healthcare suit against cancer drug distributor time-barred
- Trump’s Wisconsin visit warns of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
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