Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Fourth Amendment – Excessive Force
While staying at a hotel, Snowden received a call instructing him to visit the lobby to pay for his room.
Social Security Benefits
Leisgang, who suffers from various mental health conditions, applied for supplemental security income and disability insurance benefits.
Discrimination
Emad, a longstanding member of Milwaukee's Islamic community, follows the practice of Salah, praying five times a day in a state of physical purity.
Employment Law-Evidence
In 2017, Deputy Deeren announced his candidacy for the position of Sheriff of Trempealeau County.
Breach of Contract
n 2006, Ubiquity, a California-based company, entered into a contract with Associates, a firm based in Illinois and represented by North.
Product Liability – MDL
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) centralized cases related to alleged defects in Cook's inferior vena cava (IVC) filters. Many plaintiffs in the MDL claimed that Cook's filters caused various injuries and damages.
Battle over Wisconsin’s top elections official could have ripple effects for 2024
A fight over whether Wisconsin's top elections official will keep her job has potential implications for the 2024 presidential contest in a perennial battleground where statewide margins are typically razor thin.
State Bar of Wisconsin announces new Hires, promotions, partners
Who's become a partner, changed firms, received an award, and more.
Attorney Peter Baziano joins Murphy Desmond in its Business and Real Estate practice groups
Attorney Peter Bazianos has joined the law firm of Murphy Desmond S.C. in its Business and Real Estate practice groups.
Reinhart adds new PFAS group
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren adds new PFAS Group.
Operation Kristallnacht: Oak Creek man accused of defacing synagogue with Neo-Nazi symbols, group also targeted African Americans
Barasneh participated in online group chats with other Base members in which they agreed to threaten and intimidate African-Americans and Jewish-Americans, who they viewed as enemies of the white race.
The Supreme Court rejects Biden’s plan to wipe away $400 billion in student loans
The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, effectively killed the $400 billion plan
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