Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age.
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Read More »A man with three drunken-driving convictions is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed in Milwaukee earlier this week.
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Read More »A North Dakota judge says that nearly 500 pounds of marijuana seized during a vehicle stop cannot be used as evidence because a county deputy did not have a good reason to be suspicious.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has issued a warning about synthetic marijuana products that have recently sent people to the hospital with severe bleeding.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker has tapped the Watertown city attorney to fill a vacancy on the Jefferson County Circuit Court bench.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a Beloit attorney to the Rock County Circuit Court bench.
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The Wisconsin Law Journal honored 23 outstanding women lawyers Thursday night during its annual Women in the Law event at Discovery World in Milwaukee.
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Read More »A Wisconsin man has surrendered to authorities after being on the run for more than two weeks.
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A judge on Thursday sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison for sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.
Read More »The Supreme Court on Thursday wiped away a $300,000 fine and other sanctions against a financial adviser known for his "Buckets of Money" retirement strategy. The court said the administrative law judge who ruled against Raymond Lucia of California was not properly appointed to his job by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The saying “timing is everything” could have been originally written about Stacie Kalmer and the way she ended up with a successful employee benefits practice at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren.
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The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
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Read More »Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel isn't ruling out using school safety grants to cover firearm training for teachers.
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Read More »Most voters still don't know what to think about anyone in the crowd of Democrats running for governor as the August primary rapidly approaches, a poll released Wednesday shows.
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President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families.
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Read More »Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel isn't ruling out using school-safety grants to pay for firearms training for teachers.
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A teenager whose case was documented in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" wants the Supreme Court to hear his case.
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Read More »A state appeals court says the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh must release records related to a misconduct investigation involving a business professor.
Read More »The state Supreme Court says a judge improperly ordered the state to medicate a convict until he was competent to help his attorney with his appeal.
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When the economy tanked in the late 2000s and early 2010s, even large law firms in Milwaukee, far away from New York, felt the effect.
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Read More »The parents of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student asked a judge on Tuesday to give their son a chance at redemption when he is sentenced for a string of alleged assaults around campus.
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A man accused of driving drunk and killing a mother and daughter walking along a road in Brown County has been convicted.
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Read More »A federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.
Read More »Authorities have identified the bicyclist killed in Waukesha County as a pediatrician, husband and father of three.
Read More »An Arizona man has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for his hacking conviction in a cyberattack three years ago that interrupted communications equipment for emergency workers in Madison.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Beloit attorney’s license for 60 days.
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Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers' use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excessive force and that they targeted him because he is black.
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Read More »The state Supreme Court says the city of Madison doesn't owe a billboard company anything after the construction of alocal overpass blocked the company's sign.
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Read More »A Door County judge has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court's consent to request for a rule change concerning the appointment of a vice chairman to the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee.
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Read More »Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that the future Milwaukee State Office Building will be named after the late Vel Phillips.
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