Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Lawsuit requests Wisconsin Supreme Court to block impeachment before Assembly acts
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is being asked to prohibit the Wisconsin Legislature from impeaching liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Former Milwaukee Foley & Lardner partner on board of Bradley Foundation referred for criminal charges in Georgia grand jury report
North Carolina-based attorney Cleta Mitchell, a former Milwaukee partner with Foley & Lardner and current Board member of the Bradley Foundation, was recommended to be charged by the same Georgia special purpose grand jury that initially investigated former President Donald Trump and his allies attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The same special grand […]
Termination of Parental Rights
Alice appeals from an order terminating her parental rights (TPR) to her daughter, Paige.
Protective Placement-Due Process Rights
Clara appeals from an order for her protective placement under WIS. STAT. § 55.08(1).
Insurance Claims
This appeal arises from an insurance coverage dispute following a 2019 fire that destroyed several of J&J’s buildings.
Discharge from Commitment
James was committed under WIS. STAT. ch. 980 (2021-22), as a sexually violent person.
Postconviction Relief-Sentencing
Garry Tyrone Stewart appeals from a judgment of conviction following his guilty plea to one count of second-degree reckless homicide, as a party to a crime, with use of a dangerous weapon.
Small Claims Action
ABase Storage rented a storage unit to Michaud on August 20, 2018, pursuant to a written lease that allowed Michaud to store thirty-five vehicles at a monthly rent of $1,000.
Slip and Fall – Time-barred
Dennis S. Lendowski was walking to a relative’s house when he slipped and fell on a patch of ice on a public sidewalk abutting a building located at 3946 South Howell Avenue in Milwaukee.
Sufficiency of Evidence
Jeffrey Clemons went to the Barron County Sheriff’s Department on June 5, 2019, to report that his former wife, Lindsey Lundequam, and her daughter, Johanna Survila, were following and chasing him in violation of a restraining order.
Money Laundering
Tam was involved in a scheme aimed at funneling illicit funds derived from Mexican drug traffickers' narcotics deals through Chinese bank accounts.
Wrongful Termination-Title VII
Gnutek alleged that he was wrongfully terminated from his position as a Gaming Senior Special Agent with the Illinois Gaming Board.
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