Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
42 U.S.C. 1983- Deliberate Indifference
Hunter, who resided in the general-population wing of "Unit H" at Redgranite Wisconsin state prison, shared a cell with Patterson from March to December 2017.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
The eligibility for disability payments from the Fund is determined by the number of credits an ironworker has earned, with each credit representing 1,000 hours of work on union jobs in a given year.
Administrative Law-Disability Insurance Benefits
After being involved in a car accident in 2013, Michelle Baptist, who was then 50 years old, began to suffer from severe neck and shoulder pain, as well as recurring headaches.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Camarena, who had defaulted on a debt and later married Ross, shared a phone plan with her.
Tax- Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
Under the provisions of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA), specifically 26 U.S.C. 6221–6234, the tax obligations of a partnership were allocated to individual partners based on their ownership stakes.
Eighth Amendment-Deliberate Indifference
A kitchen supervisor instructed Balle, an Illinois state prisoner, to transport near-boiling water in a plastic five-gallon bucket across a wet and damaged floor.
Democrats eye Wisconsin high court’s new liberal majority to win abortion and redistricting rulings
While the court is widely expected to weigh in on abortion and redistricting, liberals also are talking about bringing new challenges to school choice, voter ID, the 12-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers and other laws backed by Republicans.
Wisconsin officials seek legislators’ permission to drop lawsuit challenging border wall funding
Republicans passed statutes before then-Gov. Scott Walker left office in 2018 designed to weaken incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers.
FEDS: Wisconsin man sentenced for making racially-charged threats against Black residents
"Every person in the United States has the right to live in their homes and neighborhoods free from the threat of violence based on race,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Wisconsin woman’s killing, dismemberment trial to begin Monday after jury chosen, judge’s ruling
The trial of a woman charged with killing and dismembering a Green Bay man last year is set to begin Monday after a judge found her fit to assist in her own defense.
Gov. Evers grants 96 pardons, bringing total pardons granted to 1,029
This round of pardons breaks the Wisconsin record for most pardons granted by a governor in state history.
Wisconsin sued over absentee voting rules
A lawsuit filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court against the Wisconsin Elections Commission targets voting rules in Wisconsin -- a key battleground state --- in anticipation of the 2024 presidential election.
Legal News
- UW-Milwaukee chancellor to step down next year amid handling of Pro-Hamas protesters
- Wisconsin Republicans are improperly blocking conservation work, court says
- Man hurt when home in rural Wisconsin explodes has died, authorities say
- Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
- Gov. Evers appoints Travis Maze as Jefferson County Sheriff
- Democrat Dora Drake wins open seat in Wisconsin state Senate
- Wisconsin joins coalition urging Supreme Court to uphold federal ghost gun regulations
- GM will pay $146 million in penalties because 5.9 million older vehicles emit excess carbon dioxide
- NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944.64 in ‘Sunday Ticket’ case
- Milwaukee Police investigating fatal downtown crash
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
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