Recent Articles from Derek Hawkins
Breach of Contract-Bad Faith
The parents are employed by the School District and have a self-funded health insurance plan contracted through the District.
42 U.S.C. 1983- Deliberate Indifference
Hunter, who resided in the general-population wing of "Unit H" at Redgranite Wisconsin state prison, shared a cell with Patterson from March to December 2017.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
The eligibility for disability payments from the Fund is determined by the number of credits an ironworker has earned, with each credit representing 1,000 hours of work on union jobs in a given year.
Administrative Law-Disability Insurance Benefits
After being involved in a car accident in 2013, Michelle Baptist, who was then 50 years old, began to suffer from severe neck and shoulder pain, as well as recurring headaches.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Camarena, who had defaulted on a debt and later married Ross, shared a phone plan with her.
Tax- Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
Under the provisions of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA), specifically 26 U.S.C. 6221–6234, the tax obligations of a partnership were allocated to individual partners based on their ownership stakes.
Eighth Amendment-Deliberate Indifference
A kitchen supervisor instructed Balle, an Illinois state prisoner, to transport near-boiling water in a plastic five-gallon bucket across a wet and damaged floor.
Democrats eye Wisconsin high court’s new liberal majority to win abortion and redistricting rulings
While the court is widely expected to weigh in on abortion and redistricting, liberals also are talking about bringing new challenges to school choice, voter ID, the 12-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers and other laws backed by Republicans.
Wisconsin officials seek legislators’ permission to drop lawsuit challenging border wall funding
Republicans passed statutes before then-Gov. Scott Walker left office in 2018 designed to weaken incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers.
FEDS: Wisconsin man sentenced for making racially-charged threats against Black residents
"Every person in the United States has the right to live in their homes and neighborhoods free from the threat of violence based on race,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Wisconsin woman’s killing, dismemberment trial to begin Monday after jury chosen, judge’s ruling
The trial of a woman charged with killing and dismembering a Green Bay man last year is set to begin Monday after a judge found her fit to assist in her own defense.
Gov. Evers grants 96 pardons, bringing total pardons granted to 1,029
This round of pardons breaks the Wisconsin record for most pardons granted by a governor in state history.
Legal News
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
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