Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Abortions to resume in Wisconsin Monday
Abortions in Milwaukee and Madison will resume Monday.
Wisconsin Senate to vote on firing state’s nonpartisan top elections official
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate was set to vote Thursday on firing the battleground state's top elections official — a move that was denounced by Democrats as illegitimate and is expected to draw a legal battle.
Wisconsin settles state Justice Department pollution allegations against 2 factory farms
The state Justice Department accused North Side Genetics of failing to construct a feed storage runoff control system.
Sheriff’s deputy faces lawsuit after K-9 attacked fellow officer
A police dog mistakenly bit a police officer instead of subduing a fleeing suspect.
8th Circuit sides with cop accused of 1st Amendment retaliation arrest
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a police officer accused of arresting a man as retaliation for using his First Amendment right to free speech.
High court: Car search justified
Police had probable cause to search a man’s vehicle after an informant told them he had a gun inside,
Legal Lingo: Justices’ opinions blaze trails in language, graphics
The Commerce Clause is right there in the U.S. Constitution, authorizing Congress “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
New visa rules proposed
Immigrant farmworkers would receive a raft of new protections under a Biden administration proposal announced Tuesday, which would boost safety requirements on farms and raise transparency around how such workers are brought to the U.S., to combat human trafficking.
Wisconsin Republican leader asks former state Supreme Court justices to review impeachment
Wisconsin's Republican Assembly leader announced Wednesday that he's created a panel to investigate the criteria for impeachment as he mulls taking that unprecedented step against a liberal state Supreme Court justice.
Apple and Google should be held accountable for privacy violations
If you've ever Googled "watches" or "shoes" on your work or home computer then later that day scrolled through Facebook on your phone, odds are you see ads for the same product. And it's no coincidence.
Former Wisconsin Democrat turned Trump Attorney Chesebro files Georgia motion to dismiss indictment
Kenneth Chesebro's lawyers filed a motion Tuesday in Fulton County, Georgia asking the court to dismiss charges against him in the "election interference case."
DOJ: Google exploited exclusive search engine deals to maintain advantage
Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said
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