By IVAN MORENO Associated Press Paul Hildreth peered at a display of dozens of images from security cameras surveying his Atlanta school district and settled on one showing a woman in a bright yellow shirt walking a hallway. A mouse ...
Read More »Gov. Scott Walker is seeking applicants for appointment to the Juneau County Circuit Court.
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Read More »By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has taken the unusual step of revealing the state Department of Justice is investigating opioid manufacturers to see what role they may have played in creating ...
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel isn’t saying whether he might challenge President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions or whether he supports them. Schimel, a Republican, said during a news conference Monday that he would consider legal action ...
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The Huff Post has ruled this baby guilty of being too freakin' cute for words: http://huff.to/1wOtO2s
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About every two days you see an advertisement about how to start a law firm for $10,000 and an adjustable-rate mortgage. Forget that: http://bit.ly/1tVztDq
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A 72-year-old woman has sued a California hair salon, alleging she ate a cookie laced with marijuana from a hospitality tray left out for customers: http://cbsloc.al/1lihNAx
Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday voted to accept five new cases and denied review of 13 others.
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Read More »Marquette Law School and the Milwaukee Bar Association are partnering to launch the Milwaukee Justice Center Mobile Legal Clinic, a bus designed to provide free, brief legal advice to individuals who are outside of the areas currently served by legal volunteer efforts in metropolitan Milwaukee.
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Read More »Jeremiah Van Hecke has been named the Wisconsin Judicial Commission's executive director.
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Glenn Willis, 62, an employee at Kohn Law Firm, was found dead around 10 a.m. Friday in his downtown Milwaukee apartment.
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Read More »Milwaukee minority law firm Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP has been named a Premier Provider for Legal and Corporate Affairs by Microsoft Corp.
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Leaving unresolved a question that has split the circuits and perplexed employment attorneys, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to decide whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to reassign a disabled employee to a vacant position that would have otherwise been filled by a competitive process.
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One way or another, the approximately 300 judges in Minnesota are getting a raise next year. There are no such raises, however, planned for Wisconsin judges.
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Laura Gramling Perez on Tuesday officially announced she is running for Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge, Branch 32.
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The financial partnership between Wisconsin counties and the state court system provides a justice system with a high rate of return on investment for the people of Wisconsin, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson told members of the Wisconsin Counties Association on Wednesday.
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Read More »The Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.
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Read More »MILWAUKEE (AP) — Efforts to dredge toxic industrial chemicals from the Fox River should continue, a federal judge has ruled. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Natural Resources filed a federal lawsuit against NCR Corp. and 11 ...
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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice John L. Coffey died Saturday at the age of 90.
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Read More »The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tackled a tough question on Tuesday, considering what consequences result under the Double Jeopardy Clause from an acquittal that was caused by a judge’s error.
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Read More »Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has vowed not to do anything until after the November election.
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Read More »The Wisconsin District 3 Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a judgment in a breach-of-contract case involving United Concrete and Construction Inc., Appleton, and its concrete subcontractor, Red-D-Mix Concrete Inc., Green Bay.
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A spate of recent news stories suggests trouble for America’s 200-plus accredited law schools as a result of increasing debt among students.
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Read More »A Brookfield woman has filed the first lawsuit over a Salmonella outbreak that health officials have linked to raw tuna. She filed the lawsuit Wednesday in California.
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Read More »The Government's attachment of a GPS device to a vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor that vehicle, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.
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Read More »Linda Emery works from her office at von Briesen & Roper SC on July 26 in Milwaukee. Emery often focuses on social media issues within her roll at the firm. ( Staff photo by Kevin Harnack) Not too long ago, a ...
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Read More »EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man will serve 18 months in prison for supplying drugs that led to the overdose death of a 22-year-old Eau Claire woman last summer. Twenty-nine-year-old Craig Harp of Red Wing, Minn., was sentenced ...
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Read More »While I welcome the coverage the Wisconsin Law Journal in the June 27, 2011, edition afforded to the new conditional admission rule adopted last month by the state Supreme Court, I hope that your readers will not be distracted by the possible implication of the article, that the new CA rule is somehow intended to (or likely to) put further hurdles in front of applicants for admission to the bar.
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker plans to sign his budget bill into law this weekend in Green Bay. His office said Thursday the signing will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at Badger Sheet Metal Works. The event ...
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Read More »The state’s Attorney General’s office announced a settlement Wednesday against a drilling company for a failure to get permits on jobs dating back to 2007. Michael Hartman and his company, Michael Hartman Well Drilling & Pump Inc., North Lake, settled ...
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