Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Attorney to plead guilty over efforts to overturn election
Ellis is also accused of urging state legislators to unlawfully appoint a set of presidential electors loyal to Trump at a hearing in Pennsylvania, and she later appeared with some of those lawmakers and Trump at a meeting on the topic at the White House.
Evers administration allocates $402 million to combat PFAS, other water contaminants
Gov. Tony Evers is allocating more than $402 million to address polluted drinking water in Wisconsin, his office announced Monday.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary resigning after 10 months on the job
Adam Payne sent a letter to Gov. Tony Evers on Friday announcing his intention to leave the agency on Nov. 1 and retire next year.
Service of Summons & Complaint Method
Steren owns and operates a McDonald’s restaurant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. On June 3, 2021, Hutchinson filed a complaint against Steren, alleging negligence and a violation of WIS. STAT. § 101.11 (2021-22), Wisconsin’s safe place statute, as a result of a slip and fall that she sustained at the McDonald’s on April 7, 2019.
Breach of Contract for Medical Care
Johnson appeals an order dismissing his breach of contract claim against Drs. Thomas Harding and David Macherey, Remedios Azcueta, the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex (“MHC”), Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”), and Milwaukee County.
Sentence Modification
Jarmon was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide for the 1997 shooting death of his girlfriend.
Contempt Against Attorney
Thomas L. Potter appeals from an order of the circuit court, the Honorable Kori Ashley presiding, summarily finding him in contempt of court for violating the court’s order that the victim witnesses, Donald and Frank, “are to be instructed that they are not allowed in the courtroom during opening statement, and then during any part of the trial until they have testified.”
Postconviction Claims Without a Hearing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Minor and his father were each charged with one count of trafficking a child.
Suppression of Evidence-Reasonable Suspicion
According to the criminal complaint, police officers on patrol in the City of Milwaukee on April 1, 2018, stopped a Ford Expedition on West Atkinson Avenue for suspected traffic code violations.
Postconviction Relief-Postconviction Pleading
Love was convicted upon a jury’s verdict in 2012, for counts of second-degree reckless homicide by use of a dangerous weapon as a party to a crime and possession of a firearm by a felon, both with the habitual criminality penalty enhancer.
Suppression of Evidence
Wells, pro se, appeals from a judgment convicting him of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Legal News
- 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
- 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
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