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Weekly Case Digests
Weekly Case Digests – March 21, 2022 - March 25, 2022
Weekly Case Digests – November 29, 2021 – December 3, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – November 29, 2021 - December 3, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – November 8, 2021 – November 12, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – November 8, 2021 - November 12, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – October 25, 2021 – October 29, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – October 25, 2021 - October 29, 2021
Malicious Prosecution Action
This case is about the tort of malicious prosecution.
Weekly Case Digests – July 5, 2021 – July 9, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – August 16, 2021 – August 20, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – July 5, 2021 – July 9, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – July 5, 2021 – July 9, 2021
1 year and 105 jury trials later, Milwaukee County courts continue efforts to return to normal
It has been nearly a year of in-person, pandemic-related operations for Wisconsin’s First Judicial District, and every day still brings new questions for Chief Judge Mary Triggiano. As she describes how Milwaukee County courts have been returning to in-person proceedings, a staff member interrupts to ask: Where should warrant return walk-ins be sent? “There are […]
Weekly Case Digests – June 21, 2021 – June 25, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – June 21, 2021 – June 25, 2021
Recommitment Order – Sufficiency of Evidence
WI Court of Appeals – District I Case Name: Milwaukee County v. T.L.T. Case No.: 2020AP426 Officials: DUGAN, J. Focus: Recommitment Order – Sufficiency of Evidence T.L.T. appeals a one-year recommitment order entered on May 28, 2019, and argues that the circuit court lost its competency when the expert reports bearing on the issue of […]
THE GATES DIVORCE: Proof, if any were needed, that money doesn’t equal happiness
The most discussed divorce case in social media today is the one recently filed by Bill and Melinda Gates. Although certainly not a typical divorce case, a few comments seem warranted, perhaps because of its unusual quality.
Hickey aims to be accessible to all members as State Bar president-elect
When Margaret Wrenn Hickey, a Milwaukee family and elder law attorney, got a call asking her to run for president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin, she knew she had the experience needed for the job.
Legal News
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
- Brewers have American Family Field escalators inspected after malfunction results in 11 injuries
- US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say
- GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin appeal ruling allowing disabled people to obtain ballots electronically
- 11 people injured when escalator malfunctions at Milwaukee ballpark
- Judge receives ethics fine after endorsing candidate
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