Sanctions
Kelly D. Ebmeyer sued several prison officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Eighth Amendment.
Plain Error – Sentencing
In February 2018, Rex A. Hopper was convicted of conspiracy to distribute fifty or more grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a), 846, and 841(b)(1)(B).
Subject-matter Jurisdiction
Appellate review of state-court judgments is reserved exclusively to the United States Supreme Court.
Statutory Interpretation – Safe Harbor
This appeal presents two questions of first impression concerning a federal excise tax on heavy trucks and the scope of a statutory safe harbor.
Statute of Limitations – Product Liability
This appeal turns on the Illinois discovery rule for applying the statute of limitations to product liability claims.
Statutory Interpretation – Assault
Todd Stands Alone, while imprisoned at a federal correctional facility in Wisconsin, injured a correctional officer.
Arbitration Award
It would be difficult to overstate the strength of the Supreme Court’s support for arbitration when the parties have elected to resolve their disputes using that mechanism.
Weekly Case Digests – October 18, 2021 – October 22, 2021
Weekly Case Digests – October 18, 2021 - October 22, 2021
Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings
Pending before the court is Attorney Daniel Parks' second petition for reinstatement of his license to practice law in Wisconsin.
Unlawful Seizure – Suppression of Evidence
The State charged John W. Lane with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and with a prohibited blood alcohol concentration, third offense, based on evidence obtained during a traffic stop.
Guardianship and Protective Placement
L.W. appeals orders for guardianship and protective placement. L.W. argues that the order for protective placement should be reversed.
Divorce – Property Division
Kimberly B. Rushman appeals the circuit court’s division of property in a judgment of divorce between herself and her former husband, Christopher John McMahon.
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