Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Wisconsin State Patrol to conduct special enforcement Friday to stop risky driving in Washington County
The Wisconsin State Patrol analyzes crash data from WisDOT’s Community Maps program to determine deployment areas.
Updated: Supreme Court rules for Google, Twitter on terror-related content
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks. But the justices sidestepped the big issue hovering over the cases, the federal law that shields social media companies from being sued over content posted by others. The justices unanimously rejected a […]
Republicans: Address affordable housing delays citing ‘not in my backyard’ movement
GOP lawmakers proposed several bills for "workforce housing," which included provisions for small government when making land-use decisions.
Hunter Biden investigation: House GOP pressures CIA
House Republicans are pressuring CIA Director William Burns to conduct an investigation and hand over records on its potential role with the Hunter Biden laptop letter which aimed to discredit Joe Biden’s son’s emails as a Russian plot, reports the Washington Examiner. One of the signers of the Hunter Biden laptop letter says he and his wife only signed on to the baseless October [&he[...]
Justice Department leadership meets with civil rights groups
By Steve Schuster [email protected] Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division met with civil rights organizations Wednesday at the Justice Department. “Department leadership heard from attending organizations on an array of topics [...]
High court upholds ban on some gun sales
The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law.
Case involving abortion pill moves to appeals court
NEW ORLEANS – Legal arguments over women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion move to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, in a case challenging a Food and Drug Administration decision made more than two decades ago. The closely watched case is likely to wind up […]
Milwaukee Mayor: City bankrupt by 2025; Vos: Republicans ‘done negotiating’ local aid
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson warned lawmakers last week that the city faces bankruptcy by 2025 without help.
Wisconsin tribe to ask court to shut down oil pipeline
Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline that the tribe says is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land.
Milwaukee Bar Association to host annual Memorial Service Friday
Memorial Service to be held Friday, May 19 at noon in the Milwaukee County Courthouse, Room 500.
UPDATED: DOJ investigating Mequon Police shooting that killed 86-year-old man
Mequon Police and the Ozaukee County Special Response Team responded to a call for a neighbor dispute involving a firearm on Wednesday that results in a fatal shooting. No law enforcement officials were injured.
High court rules it’s too late to sue athletic group for coach who sexually assaulted teens
It is too late for a woman to sue the sports organization that employed a basketball coach who repeatedly sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday.
Legal News
- 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
- 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
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