Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Sex Offender Residency Restrictions
In 2008, the town of Paris, in rural Kenosha County of Wisconsin, implemented an ordinance titled "Sex Offender Residency Restrictions."
Fair Housing Act
In a lawsuit initiated in 2014 under the provisions of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601–19), Cook County asserted that certain banks had excessively extended credit to specific borrowers, resulting in subsequent defaults and foreclosures that inflicted harm upon the County.
Twenty-Sixth Amendment-Voting Rights
Indiana law allows “elderly” voters—those sixty-five or older—to vote by mail.
Summary Judgment-Negligence
Jason Burns, a truck driver, injured himself while delivering products to a Sherwin-Williams paint supply store.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
In 2013, Coleman was found guilty of conspiring to distribute crack cocaine, as outlined in 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), 846. Subsequently, he received a life imprisonment sentence, which was then mandatory, due to his previous convictions for a "felony drug offense" under section 841(b)(1)(A). The Seventh Circuit Court confirmed this decision.
Transportation Benefits for Students Attending Private Schools.
In 2015, the Forro children were enrolled at St. Augustine, a school in Hartford, Wisconsin, which identifies itself as Catholic.
Fair Credit Reporting Act,
Mistakes in compiling and reporting credit information are inevitable.
Suppression of Evidence
ShotSpotter devices alerted authorities to potential gunshots occurring on the west side of Chicago.
Product Liability
In an effort to mitigate the potential dangers stemming from future blood clots, Johnson elected to undergo a surgical procedure for the insertion of a retrievable intravascular filter.
Fair Use-Costs and Fees
The Cremation Society of Illinois and its co-defendants sought to recover their attorney’s fees after defeating Live Face on Web’s copyright claims against them.
Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Rights
Gunter and Grommet collaborated in a scheme to distribute methamphetamine, which included a controlled transaction where law enforcement agents procured actual methamphetamine from Gunter.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Unifund acquired defaulted consumer debt from Choice and engaged the services of the Kohn Law Firm.
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