Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Trump makes video appearance in NY court
Trump pleaded not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters. He has denied wrongdoing.
‘Making a Murderer’ rebuttal ‘Convicting a Murderer’ launches ad
The new series is expected to air this Summer.
Police investigating bomb threat at Whole Foods in Evanston
The store reopened approximately 2 hours later after police conducted a sweep of the grocery store and determined it was safe for customers and employees to return.
Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US
Meta, which had previously warned that services for its users in Europe could be cut off, vowed to appeal and ask courts to immediately put the decision on hold.
Wisconsin has 2nd highest percentage of prisoners locked up for crimes committed as youth
Wisconsin also has the fourth-highest racial disparity nationwide among prisoners incarcerated for crimes they committed as youth.
Right-wing groups push boiler plate bills
Aaron and Lacey Jennen’s roots in Arkansas run deep. They’ve spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they’re heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move to one of an ever-dwindling number of states where gender-affirming health care for their transgender teenage daughter, Sabrina, is […]
TikTok and other social media trends are thrusting performance crimes into the US spotlight
While the Kia Challenge is the social media crime trend of the moment, it's not the first.
Constitutional Amendments-“Marsy’s Law”
When the Wisconsin Constitution was adopted in 1848, it included a process enabling amendments—— an act the people of Wisconsin have seen fit to do almost 150 times.
Disclosure of Mental Health and Counseling Records
Defendant was charged with sexually assaulting his son, T.A.J., and his daughter. Citing Shiffra, Defendant sought in camera review of T.A.J.'s mental health and counseling records.
Discovery Violations- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Simmons appeals from a judgment convicting him, following a jury trial, of trafficking a child, as a party to the crime and as a repeater, and from an order denying his postconviction motion.
Right to a Unanimous Jury Verdict
Burks appeals from his judgment of conviction, entered upon a jury’s verdict, for first-degree reckless injury by use of a dangerous weapon.
Fraud-Sale of Home
Buth appeals from the order of the circuit court granting summary judgment to Daniel and Jodi Pyawasay (the Pyawasays) and dismissing her claims of misrepresentation and fraud in the Pyawasays’ sale of their home to Buth.
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
WLJ People
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