Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Quarles & Brady combines with Denver-based intellectual property firm
Quarles & Brady has combined with Adsero IP, an intellectual property law firm based in Denver.
O’Neill Institute unveils new Health Care Litigation Tracker
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law has launched its Health Care Litigation Tracker — a free, digital resource that tracks and analyzes health care litigation in the United States.
Work for anti-abortion group issue in Wisconsin court race
The Republican-backed candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court provided legal advice to one of the state's leading anti-abortion groups, work that Wisconsin Right to Life and Dan Kelly have not detailed but that is being used against Kelly by his liberal opponent.
Postconviction Motion – Evidentiary Burden
The court of appeals affirmed the circuit court's judgment of conviction for first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree sexual assault, and false imprisonment, and its denial of Thomas's postconviction motion.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Breeden appeals from a judgment convicting him of second-degree reckless endangerment, battery, and disorderly conduct (each as an act of domestic abuse), and from an order denying his postconviction motion.
Plain Error – Mental Commitment
Catherine appeals two orders entered under WIS. STAT. ch. 51: one recommitting her for twelve months, and another requiring the involuntary administration of medication and treatment.
Bias Statements by Court
Graham Stowe, who is subject to an NGI commitment (“not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect), appeals from an order denying his petition for conditional release.
4th Amendment Violation – Immunity
One day in April 2020, Amanda Pierner-Lytge, a private security office and Second Amendment supporter, strapped a rifle to her back and walked to a local park.
Suppression of Statements – Miranda Rights
Olivas Bailon accompanied a friend on a road trip from Aurora, Illinois to Chicago for a drug transaction.
Sentencing – Sufficiency of Evidence
Driving alone in Indianapolis, Richardson committed a traffic violation and was stopped by police.
Immigration – Jurisdiction – 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i)
Britkovyy is a Ukrainian citizen who hopes to become a lawful permanent resident of the United States.
Economic Justice Institute names Nelson as executive director
The Economic Justice Institute has named Erica Nelson as its executive director of the LIFT Wisconsin project.
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