Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
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.
Editorial: Legalizing marijuana could add $36M in tax revenue
Legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin would recognize reality: Cannabis has gone mainstream.
Costly liability price tag for firms deploying artificial intelligence
Ethical dilemmas arise when AI-generated legal advice, contracts, or briefs contain errors or so-called 'hallucinations.'
Unusual Waupun lockdown began in March
Prisoners complain of dirty conditions, lack of medical care.
Expungement law reforms sought in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is the only state in the nation where past and closed cases are not eligible for expungement.
Judge: Trump’s defamation appeal ‘frivolous’
Lawyers for Trump did not immediately return email messages seeking comment.
Wisconsin Republicans propose eliminating work permits for 14- and 15-year-olds
Former Gov. Scott Walker, signed a bill in 2017 that removed work permit requirements for 16- and 17-year-olds.
Teen in stolen car leads police on 132-mph chase
A judge Thursday ordered the youth held until his next court appearance Sept. 15.
Need gas after midnight? Don’t stop in Hammond.
Hammond Common Council voted 7-2 on Monday to approve the ordinance, which takes effect Nov. 1.
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