Recent Articles from Derek Hawkins
Parts of a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver have been stolen
The Denver Police Department’s Bias-Motivated Crime Unit is investigating.
Right to contraception rejected by Wisconsin Assembly Republicans
Thousands of Wisconsinites lost a concrete right to make their own healthcare decisions.
Planned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to find 1849 abortion law unconstitutional
The Supreme Court has not said whether it will accept the case.
Alabama’s frozen embryo ruling is having its first effects
On Wednesday, the University of Alabama Birmingham hospital paused IVF treatments.
Marquette Law School Poll: National survey shows Trump win over Biden
Biden’s favorability is more net negative, -20, than Trump’s -9.
Wisconsin school district releases tape of Black superintendent’s comments that led to resignation
The Green Bay school district on Wednesday released the recording.
Evers signals he won’t sign bill to fight PFAS as legislative session nears end
The Senate passed the bill in November.
New York AG says she’ll seize Donald Trump’s property if he can’t pay $454 million civil fraud debt
Trump will receive an automatic stay if he puts up money.
Federal student loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers are being automatically canceled, Biden says
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration was automatically canceling federal student loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers, putting the spotlight on his debt cancellation efforts as he ramps up his reelection campaign.
Wisconsin bills to fight ‘forever chemicals’ pollution, speed ballot counting in jeopardy
Measures that would legalize medical marijuana, spend $125 million to combat pollution from "forever chemicals" and allow election officials to speed up the counting of absentee ballots all appear to be doomed as the Wisconsin Legislature approaches the end of its session for the year.
DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling
A Republican prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to decide whether a 174-year-old state law bans abortion in the state without waiting for a ruling from a lower appellate court.
Senate votes to reject Evers appointees
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to reject four of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees, including a member of the state's natural resources policy board and a former lieutenant governor who was to serve on a hospital governing board.
Legal News
- Wisconsin DNR agrees to repeal anti-firearm rule
- Harris kicks off campaign for president with a rally in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin leads 26 governors to strengthen state and tribal child support enforcement act
- Wisconsin man charged with fleeing to Ireland to avoid prison term for Capitol riot role
- Wisconsin Supreme Court reveals September oral arguments calendar
- New Jersey man sentenced for series of violent assaults on members of the Orthodox Jewish Community
- Milwaukee County District Attorney, UWM police address Jewish threats
- With GOP convention over, Milwaukee weighs the benefits of hosting political rivals
- Secret Service head resigns as Congress formally investigates
- Milwaukee Police Department issues statement regarding video release policy
- GOP convention sets the stage for the Democratic convention in Chicago, activists and police say
- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property