Recent Articles from Kirsten Klahn, [email protected]
Ozaukee County grapples with increase in pro se litigation
There’s a shift going on at the Ozaukee County Justice Center.
Heaney, former State Bar president, dies
Donald Heaney, an attorney at Madison-based Boardman & Clark LLP and former State Bar president, died Thursday morning.
Day in Circuit Court set for Oct. 8
The Greater Milwaukee Association of Legal Professionals, along with John Barrett, Milwaukee County’s clerk of court, and the staff of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court will host A Day in Circuit Court on Oct. 8.
Brown Deer eminent domain trial set for March
Brown Deer officials and residents are waiting for a March court date to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.
Dodge County courthouse putting paper in the past
The mountains of paper clogging the Dodge County Justice Facility are disappearing. In their place are neatly stored computer files and the feeling that the people working in the courthouse are leading the way in embracing new technologies.
Odor in the court: Hydrogen sulfide corrodes Dodge County pipes
The smell is foul enough to gag a juror.
Property taxes prompt church lawsuit
A Milwaukee church is suing the city to avoid paying more than $10,000 in property taxes.
American Indian group files to join lawsuit against Milwaukee
The American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin Inc. is suing Milwaukee in U.S. District Court to end an ordinance that sets race-based preferences and goals for city construction contracts.
AG: Golf course to pay 12K for wetland, waterway violations
The Platteville Golf and Country Club will pay $12,000 for the grading and filling of a streambed and wetlands without obtaining a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources, according to a news release from Attorney General’s J.B. Van Hollen office.
Brown Deer eminent domain case going to trial
A court ruling is forcing Brown Deer officials and residents to go to trial over the use of eminent domain for a $2.3 million streetscape project.
State settles Milwaukee County environmental case
Wauwatosa resident Ronald Collision will pay $2,000 for violations regarding the maintenance of underground gasoline and dry cleaning storage tanks, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's office.
AG orders railroad to pay 49K for storm water, wetland violations
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Friday announced Progressive Rail Inc., and its Wisconsin Northern Railroad division, must pay $49,000 in forfeitures, assessments, costs and fees for violating Wisconsin's storm water and wetland protection laws, according to a news release from the Attorney General's office.
Legal News
- Gov. Evers appoints Travis Maze as Jefferson County Sheriff
- Democrat Dora Drake wins open seat in Wisconsin state Senate
- Wisconsin joins coalition urging Supreme Court to uphold federal ghost gun regulations
- GM will pay $146 million in penalties because 5.9 million older vehicles emit excess carbon dioxide
- NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944.64 in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case
- Milwaukee Police investigating fatal downtown crash
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies