Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Zoning Ordinance
Trustee Jan Miller serves on the Village Board of Lyndon Station.
Involuntary Administration of Medication
Anderson petitioned for review of a court of appeals decision, State v. Anderson, No. 2020AP819-CR, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Mar. 16, 2021), that affirmed the circuit court's order authorizing the involuntary administration of medication to restore Anderson's competency.
Evidence-Legal Malpractice
This is a review of certain evidentiary determinations and other related issues following a jury verdict in a legal malpractice trial.
Termination of parental rights
R.A.M. appeals the order terminating her parental rights to her child, P.M. She argues that the circuit court lost competency because the circuit court proceeded to the dispositional phase of the termination of parental rights (TPR) proceedings in violation of a statutory mandate.
Divorce-Maintenance Award
Steven Peet appeals from a judgment of divorce, challenging the circuit court’s award of maintenance to his former wife, Amity Peet, and the court’s division of the parties’ property.
Termination of parental rights
I.B. (hereinafter “Ivy”) appeals the orders of the trial court terminating her parental rights to her children, I.H. and K.H. On appeal, Ivy contends that the State failed to comply with the service requirements prescribed in WIS. STAT.
Insufficient Evidence
Cayer appeals from an order committing him to the custody of the Department of Health Services for life, following a special verdict finding that he was not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI) on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and three counts of bail jumping.
Enticement of a Minor
Michael Baird responded to an online FBI sting operation advertising the opportunity to have sex with a ten-year-old girl.
Sexual Assault
Two sisters accused Mr. Bell, a friend of their mother, of sexually assaulting them.
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Mack used a US Bank credit card to make household purchases.
Employment Law
While he was an Illinois State Police (“ISP”) lieutenant, Mr. Dunn was assigned to work at the Illinois Gaming Board under an inter-governmental agreement.
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