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The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a possibly incendiary case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their attempts to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers has put together a council to advise him on criminal-justice policy.

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A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspend a La Crosse attorney’s law license for six months and require him to undergo an exam.

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Several Wisconsin cities and one county are getting new diesel buses thanks to fines that Volkswagen paid for cheating on emissions tests, but environmentalists say officials missed an opportunity to spend money on "greener" electric vehicles.

The State Bar of Wisconsin is looking into whether it should respond to an incident in October when a Milwaukee County trial court judge had a government defense attorney handcuffed and belly-chained at a hearing.

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Two attorneys from Neenah are vying for the top leadership position at the State Bar of Wisconsin.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System regents are signing off on millions of dollars of tuition increases for out-of-state and graduate students at UW-Madison over the next two academic years. The plan calls for raising non-resident undergraduate tuition ...

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he will nominate William Barr, attorney general under President George HW Bush, as his next attorney general.

Republicans pushing to hang on to power in Wisconsin and Michigan aren't stopping at curbing the authority of incoming Democratic governors. They're also trying to hamstring Democrats who are about to take over as attorneys general.

An 18-year-old woman has been sentenced to probation for a crash that killed her friend and classmate in Dane County.

A former Jackson County district attorney is challenging allegations that he engaged in criminal behavior that violated attorney-ethics rules.

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A Scottsdale attorney has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.4 million in restitution in a bankruptcy fraud case.

A Cook County jury has awarded $21.5 million to the family of a 6-year-old boy who drowned during a summer camp in suburban Chicago.

A writer who sued a double-decker bus company after getting hit and seriously injured has been awarded $85 million by a jury.

A former federal prosecutor whose anonymous online posts led to turmoil at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Orleans and upended a high-profile police abuse case was disbarred Wednesday by Louisiana's Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about an exception to the Constitution's ban on being tried for the same offense. The outcome could have a spillover effect on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Attorneys for a longtime New Orleans-area district attorney have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its recent decision to uphold his conviction on multiple criminal counts.

An Appleton man is charged with posing as a doctor.

A man wanted in a Chicago homicide case has been arrested in central Wisconsin.

The incoming Democratic governor of Wisconsin says he plans to make a personal appeal to his defeated rival, Republican Gov. Scott Walker, to veto sweeping GOP legislation that would strip the new administration of some powers.

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday passed a series of bills meant to restrict the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general, both Democrats.

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The Wisconsin Law Journal honored 28 Unsung Heroes at an event on Wednesday at the Grain Exchange in downtown Milwaukee. More than 260 people were in attendance to honor the people who excel behind the scenes.

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Gov. Scott Walker made two appointments on Tuesday to district attorney positions in Burnett and Columbia counties.

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Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday announced that he had appointed a long-time prosecutor from Racine County to take the place of a retiring judge in Racine County.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s incoming Democratic attorney general is predicting multiple lawsuits challenging Republican lame-duck legislation limiting the powers of both his office and Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers. Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul told reporters Tuesday that the legislation undermines ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California attorney and his wife were convicted of engaging in a scheme to extort minority, immigrant-owned businesses. The Los Angeles Daily News reports Rogelio Morales and spouse Mireya Arias, both of Riverside, were convicted Monday ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a high-powered attorney to serve on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Walker has selected Scott Beightol to serve until May 2023. He replaces Republican Bryan Steil, who resigned ...

Wisconsin Republicans, just weeks away from losing control of both the governor's and attorney general's offices, planned to take big lame-duck votes Tuesday on a sweeping attempt to limit the powers of incoming Democrats, a step that opponents decried as a last-gasp power grab and attempt to invalidate the election.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Elections Commission has certified the results from the Nov. 6 election. Democrat Tony Evers defeated Republican Gov. Scott Walker by a little more than a percentage point. Evers collected 1,324,307 votes compared with Walker’s ...