Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Consumer Protection Action
Talyansky’s family founded Mid City Auto Salvage, the predecessor company to Midwest.
Guilty Plea
The State charged Navarro with first-degree intentional homicide and mayhem based on allegations that Navarro fatally attacked a co-worker with a circular saw.
Summary Judgment-Worker’s Compensation Act
On November 12, 2018, Torrez was operating a forklift at a Kroger’s warehouse when it collided with a pallet jack driven by Katirius Johnson.
Discovery-Monetary Sanctions
Frank and Rose Liska named Pamela Bublitz to serve as their Financial Power of Attorney (POA).
Admissible Evidence
Jose A. Arevalo-Viera appeals from a judgment, entered upon a jury’s verdict, for four counts of first-degree sexual assault, one count of second-degree sexual assault, one count of kidnapping as a party to a crime, and one count of armed robbery.
Arbitration Award-Employment Law
New Wellness is a business that provides outpatient mental health services.
Divorce-Maintenance Order Revision
William Murray Kravit (William) appeals an order of the circuit court denying his post-judgment motion to terminate or revise the prior maintenance order in this divorce action.
Election Day-Motion to Intervene
Federal law designates "[t]he Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November[] in every even-numbered year" as the official election day (2 U.S.C. 7).
Class Action-
PayPal offers the option to donate to charities through the Giving Fund, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization operated by PayPal.
Deliberate Indifference
In June 2017, inmate Arce suffered a sharp knee injury while playing soccer at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center in Illinois.
immigration
After DHS reinstated previous removal orders and initiated a new removal proceeding, Mejia made a plea for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3) and protection under the Convention Against Torture.
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
Officer Brinkmeier at Dixon Correctional Center informed inmate Walker that prison policy prohibited inmates from having "unsearchable" hairstyles, specifically mentioning dreadlocks.
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