Recent Articles from WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Highlights of Republican-authored Wisconsin state budget
The Wisconsin Legislature's budget-writing committee planned to complete its work Thursday on the state's next two-year spending plan, paving the way for the Senate and Assembly to vote on it later this month.
Judicial Substitution
This case is about whether Tavodess Matthews timely requested a judicial substitution under Wis. Stat. § 801.58(1) (2019-20).
Suppression of Evidence – Unreasonable Search – Blood Test
John Anker appeals his conviction of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) as a third offense.
Postconviction Motion Denied
In 2007, Ricardo Marinez was convicted, following a jury trial, of three counts of repeated first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Foreclosure – Unclean Hands
Patricia Ann Murphy and Patricia Gaffney, by counsel, appeal a judgment of foreclosure.
Prescriptive Easement
Gerald Wollin and other plaintiffs appeal an order dismissing their claim for a prescriptive easement based on adverse use of a road on land owned by respondent Stephen Doljanin.
Court Error – Contempt Order – Taxes
Michael Lyubchenko appeals a June 2019 order finding him in contempt for failure to follow a February 2018 order that required him to amend his 2015 income tax filings and file a joint 2015 tax return with his former spouse, Tatiana Laiter, and share equally with Laiter any refund, liability, and costs to prepare the taxes.
Termination of Parental Rights
S.K. appeals from the circuit court’s order involuntarily terminating his parental rights (TPR) to K.S-S.
Involuntary Commitment and Medication
M.W. appeals from an order of the circuit court extending her involuntary mental health commitment and also challenges an order for involuntary medication and treatment.
Child Support Modification
Child support payments in a divorce are typically ordered as monthly lump sum payments derived under a formula prescribed by state law.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
John Hudson appeals from a judgment convicting him of incest and first-degree sexual assault of a child and from a circuit court order denying his postconviction motion seeking a new trial due to ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
Wisconsin justices order new trial in brother-in-law’s death
A man convicted of killing his brother-in-law after he allegedly discovered child pornography on his computer deserves a new trial because a jury could decide he acted in self-defense, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
Legal News
- UW-Milwaukee chancellor to step down next year amid handling of Pro-Hamas protesters
- Wisconsin Republicans are improperly blocking conservation work, court says
- Man hurt when home in rural Wisconsin explodes has died, authorities say
- Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
- Gov. Evers appoints Travis Maze as Jefferson County Sheriff
- 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
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