Where is all the promised promiscuity?
The Wisconsin director for some organization called the National Federation of Independent Business recently said that Wisconsin has one of the most "promiscuous" tort systems in the country. Inasmuch as I've always been a really big fan of promiscuous behavior, I figured I should check this out.
Google Scholar Case Search Enhancement
Google announced a great enhancement to their case search feature found in Google Scholar.
Letter to the Editor: Online defamation headline inaccurate
I am general counsel to Xcentric Ventures, LLC which operates the website www.RipoffReport.com. I recently had a chance to review the case summary/analysis you posted regarding the 7th Circuit's decision in Blockowicz v. Williams.
Be more productive, less distracted in 2011
I've got distractibility, which means that even small things can derail my thought process.
Maintenance and the open letter of the law
Unfortunately, in the past two years, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has denied review of two significant maintenance cases ordered published by the Court of Appeals.
Gold and Platinum
When I usually talk about gold or platinum, I am dropping jewelry hints to my husband.
Cicchini on sentencing; Sullivan on foreclosures
Check out these interesting legal blogs.
Perlick-Molinari on OWI; Barranco on legal writing
Check out these interesting legal blogs.
Claim payments law in the nick of time
In 2009, picking the story of the year for tort lawyers was easy: The passage of Governor Jim Doyle's "Truth In Auto Insurance" changes.
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