Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Immigration
Munoz, originally from Honduras, relocated to Guatemala without obtaining legal status there.
Jury Misconduct
Garcia provided logistical assistance while another individual unloaded items from a concealed compartment on an empty bus, with these items being controlled substances.
Forfeiture
In 2020, Skaggs was found guilty of producing and possessing child pornography.
Competency to Plea
While executing a search warrant at Kamkarian's residence, FBI agents seized computers that contained 12 videos and over 46,000 images of child pornography.
Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act-Class Action
Cothron is a manager at a White Castle restaurant in Illinois, where she's required to use her fingerprint for access to the restaurant's computer system.
Sentencing-Rehabilitation
Long was arrested for domestic battery, during which the police discovered he was carrying a stolen firearm in his waistband and cocaine in plain sight.
Driver’s Privacy Protection Act-Class Action
Midvale implemented an "instant quote" feature on their websites, allowing individuals to receive quick auto insurance quotes upon providing basic identification details.
False Arrest
Cichocki contacted the police to inform them that her 15-year-old daughter, G.C., had been a victim of sexual assault by Garcia a few days prior at a resort where both families were on vacation.
Products Liability
Hakim, a member of the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) SWAT team was accidentally shot by a fellow officer during a training session.
Equal Employment Opportunity-Discrimination
Born in 1970, Hambrick, an African American woman, boasts a 35-year tenure at the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Furnishing Material Assistance to a Terrorist Organization
Jones and Schimenti, childhood friends, who were both part of the same mosque, drew the attention of the FBI due to their online posts promoting ISIS and advocating violence.
Protasiewicz prohibited from hearing abortion, gerrymandering cases if impeachment commences
In the event Protasiewicz is impeached, Gov. Tony Evers would appoint another justice to serve on the state's Supreme Court.
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