Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Trade Secrets
Defendant Menasha Packaging obtained a license for Nulogy's software, referred to as Nulogy Solution.
Bank Fraud
Simmons utilized someone else's Social Security number and fabricated employment details to initiate a savings account application and request multiple loans and credit cards through a credit union.
Contracts
In 2010, defendant Service by Air (Service) engaged plaintiff Beach Forwarders (Forwarders) as its representative through a contractual arrangement.
Wire Fraud-SBA Loan
In cases where a borrower fails to meet their obligations on a loan backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the lending institution contacts the SBA to acquire the remaining balance of the defaulted loan.
Fifth Amendment Rights
Between 2011 and 2017, Care Specialists, owned by husband-and-wife team Ferdinand and Ma Luisa Echavia.
Due Process
Prude, who was serving a sentence of 80 years, provided assistance to a friend and fellow inmate in successfully pursuing a civil rights lawsuit against their Wisconsin prison.
Electronic Detention Program-Sex Offender
Whitfield was poised to be released from Menard Correctional Center in January 2010, commencing a period of mandatory supervised release.
Sentencing Guidelines
In 2017, Elion entered a guilty plea for three counts involving the distribution of methamphetamine under sections 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C).
Sex Trafficking of Minors
Coney stood condemned on numerous counts concerning the sex trafficking of minors, predicated upon the "compelling and enduring testimony rendered by the six juvenile victims."
Jury Instructions-Drug Conspiracy
A 34-count indictment was issued by a grand jury against 12 defendants implicated in the sale of heroin.
Evidence-Child Pornography
Having acquired explicit images of child exploitation from an online source associated with Donoho, law enforcement officials proceeded to execute a search warrant at his residence in Wisconsin.
Emily Pinzl Joins Herrling Clark Law Firm as Attorney in Family Law Practice Group
Pinzl worked at Herrling Clark previously as a law clerk.
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