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Judge picks prosecutors to decide charges against officer
A business attorney and a western Wisconsin prosecutor will decide whether to file charges against a former police officer who killed a man in a suburban Milwaukee park five years ago, a judge announced Wednesday.
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Read More »Biden’s Supreme Court commission releases final report
The commission tasked by President Joe Biden with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court has released its final draft report, a cautious take on proposals for expanding the court and setting possible term limits.
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Read More »A would-be justice makes his Supreme Court debut
Merrick Garland finally made his Supreme Court debut on Tuesday. Not in a justice's black robe, but wearing the striped pants and jacket with tails reserved for government lawyers appearing before the court.
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Read More »Judge blocks Biden vaccine mandate for federal contractors
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors, the latest in a string of victories for Republican-led states pushing back against Biden’s pandemic policies.
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Read More »FLAWED FORENSICS: Judges, juries, prosecutors walk fine line in child abuse cases
Before child abuse allegations capsized his life in 2016, Alfonzo Clayborne had his first high-paying job and a new apartment in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, that he and his new family were turning into a home. He had bought himself and his girlfriend each a car.
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Read More »Republican Martin joins crowded lieutenant governor race
A former official in two prior Republican gubernatorial administrations joined the crowded GOP lieutenant governor's race on Tuesday.
Read More »If Roe falls, some fear ripple effect on civil rights cases
If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections.
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Read More »$2.35M settlement reached in excessive use of force case
A settlement has been reached in a case involving the family of a 32-year-old man a Wood County deputy shot and killed in 2019.
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Read More »Evers signs bills to improve sexual assault kit process
Gov. Tony Evers on Monday signed bipartisan bills establishing a first-ever process for collecting and tracking sexual assault evidence kits, proposals that stalled for years over partisan bickering despite widespread support among law enforcement agencies, victims' advocates and others across Wisconsin.
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Read More »Settlement reached in civil rights lawsuit filed against Baraboo School District
Dasia F. Banks v. Baraboo School District in the Western District of Wisconsin (case number 20-CV-36) was recently settled in mediation for $862,500.
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Read More »Republicans urge removal of DA over parade deaths
More than a dozen Republican Wisconsin state lawmakers on Monday called on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to remove Milwaukee County's top prosecutor because his office recommended $1,000 bail for a man before he allegedly drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade, killing six people.
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Read More »Man being held in Wisconsin accused of trying to intimidate judge
A Minneapolis man has been charged with trying to intimidate the judge presiding over the manslaughter trial of the former officer charged in Daunte Wright's death.
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Read More »Group asks judge to find Wisconsin GOP leader in contempt
A liberal group asked a judge on Friday to find Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in contempt of court for not following a November court order to turn over records about a secretive review of the 2020 election that Republicans have been conducting for months.
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Read More »Gov. Evers vetoes GOP abortion bills
Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed five Republican-authored anti-abortion bills on Friday, two days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could curtail if not end a woman's right to abortion.
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Read More »Parents of Michigan boy charged in Oxford school shooting
The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school were charged with involuntary manslaughter Friday as a prosecutor described chilling moments that day when a teacher found a drawing of a gun, a person bleeding and the words "help me" at the boy's desk.
Read More »Roe ‘settled’ law? Justices’ earlier assurances now in doubt
During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins that he thought a woman's right to an abortion was "settled law," calling the court cases affirming it "precedent on precedent" that could not be casually overturned.
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Read More »Herrling Clark’s Scheuerman named officer with WAJ
Kristen Scheuerman, a partner at Herrling Clark Law Firm, has been named treasurer of the Wisconsin Association of Justice, and is scheduled to take over as president of the organization in 2026. She will be the organization’s sixth female president in its nearly 70-year history.
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Read More »Head of GOP-led election probe says mayors could be jailed
A retired state Supreme Court justice hired by Republicans to investigate Wisconsin's 2020 election says the mayors of Madison and Green Bay should face punishment and possibly jail time if they don't meet with him, according to court documents.
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Read More »Voeks joins Reinhart as an associate
Justin Voeks has joined Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren's Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practices in the firm’s Milwaukee office as an associate.
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Read More »DA: Overworked assistant set bail too low for parade suspect
Milwaukee County's top prosecutor said Thursday that a young assistant in his office rushed to set $1,000 bail for a man before he allegedly drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade because she was overworked and never saw his risk assessment.
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Read More »Conflict over abortion laws won’t abate if Roe v. Wade falls
On both sides of America's abortion debate, activists are convinced that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion — is imperiled as never before.
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Read More »Family of man who got Legionnaires at UW Hospital is suing
The family of a leukemia patient who contracted Legionnaires' disease at UW Hospital in 2018 has filed a lawsuit seeking damages in his death.
Read More »Abortion remarks by 9 court justices indicate how they lean
The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.
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Read More »GOP risks government shutdown to fight Biden vaccine mandate
The federal government could be heading for a temporary shutdown, with Republicans poised to stall a must-pass funding bill in their effort to force a debate in Congress on rolling back the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some workers.
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Read More »Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’
The man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six people and injuring dozens, said Wednesday that he feels like he's being "demonized."
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Read More »Republican wants to empower Wisconsin secretary of state
A Republican state lawmaker announced Wednesday that she's running to be Wisconsin's next secretary of state, saying she wants to turn the mostly powerless office into a check on the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Read More »Wisconsin mayors targeted amid GOP-ordered election probe
The Republican-hired attorney investigating the 2020 election told Wisconsin lawmakers during a testy hearing Wednesday he has filed a lawsuit to force officials in Green Bay and Madison to provide testimony.
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Read More »Top Wisconsin court affirms GOP’s preferred approach to maps
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Republicans in a redistricting dispute, ruling that it saw no need to make significant changes to the maps that have helped the GOP win majorities in the state Legislature and congressional delegation.
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Read More »Justices signal they’ll OK new abortion limits, may toss Roe (UPDATE)
Abortion rights are on the line at the Supreme Court in historic arguments Wednesday over the landmark ruling nearly 50 years ago that declared a nationwide right to end pregnancies and has forged one of the most enduring fault lines in American life and politics.
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