Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Milwaukee Justice Center ‘Run of Justice’ rapidly approaching
Proceeds will benefit the Milwaukee Justice Center, a civil legal aid self-help center located within the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
Attorney General Kaul joins coalition sounding alarm over pervasive plastic microfiber pollution, Calls on EPA to protect public health
Research reflects that the consumption and inhalation of microplastic and microfibers can be associated with hormonal cancers, reproductive problems including infertility, metabolic disorders including diabetes and obesity, asthma, and neurodevelopmental disorders including autism.
Gov. Evers Seeks Applicants for Grant, Oneida, and Vernon County District Attorneys
Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday that he is seeking applicants for Grant, Oneida, and Vernon County district attorneys, respectively. The appointment for Grant County will fill a vacancy being created by District Attorney Lisa A. Riniker’s election to the Grant County Circuit Court. Additionally, the appointment for Oneida County will fill a vacancy being created […]
Attorney General Kaul Announces Distribution of $141 Million Settlement to Millions of Low-Income Americans Deceived by TurboTax Owner Intuit
Approximately 4.4 million consumers nationwide will receive checks in the mail from the multistate settlement, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Gov. Tony Evers signs bipartisan watershed protection bill for agriculture
One of four bills signed into law will increase eligibility for farmers and producers to get watershed, lake and protection grants.
Justice Department continues efforts to address crisis of missing or murdered Indigenous persons
May 5th was MMIP Awareness Day.
Liability Insurance
Plaintiffs Astellas US Holding, Inc. and Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (treated here as one entity, Astellas) paid the federal government $100 million to settle potential claims for violations of the federal Antikickback Statute and the federal False Claims Act.
Feds and local authorities dismantle Fentanyl distribution organization
Those arrested are alleged to be responsible for obtaining and distributing approximately 1 million fentanyl pills throughout Northeast Wisconsin in less than one year. The street value of this quantity of fentanyl pills is approximately $5 million.
Patient’s Rights
The petitioner, Gahl holds health care power of attorney for his uncle, Zingsheim.
Involuntary Medication Order
In 2003, the Milwaukee County Circuit Court committed Hardy to the Department of Health Services (DHS), after determining that he was a sexually violent person pursuant to WIS. STAT. ch. 980. Hardy has been at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center since that time.
Postconviction Motion
Jackson confessed to shooting and killing his girlfriend, Anicka Labourgeois.
Plea Withdrawal
According to the criminal complaint, nine-year-old Lucy told law enforcement that then-sixteen-year-old Larson had sexually assaulted her in October 2015 when she was spending the night at his home.
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