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Her office said on Thursday that the 84-year-old Abrahamson has been listening in by telephone so she can participate in the cases. Details about the testing being done were not disclosed.

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The state Department of Justice is prosecuting a Taylor County sheriff's detective for releasing records of two unsolved murders to producers of a national television show.

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Three people have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with a Milwaukee-area contractor's scheme that bilked the federal government of more than $200 million by exploiting a program set up to help minority- and disabled-veteran-owned contractors.

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A state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit Thursday against operators of a website that facilitated the purchases of a gun used in a mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee five years ago.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has extended the deadline for submitting written comments on a petition that proposes increasing the pay for private lawyers appointed to represent indigent criminal defendants.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the law license of an attorney from East Troy who admitted to benefiting from a will she had drafted for a client.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel lashed out at the state bar association on Wednesday for nominating a lawyer convicted in a sexual assault years ago for a prestigious award, saying the decision sends a horrible message to victims.

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Vel Phillips, a civil rights pioneer who helped lead open housing marches in Milwaukee in the 1960s and was the first black person elected to a Wisconsin statewide office, has died. She was 94.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently issued an order this week outlining its decision to deny a petition that would have reined in how the State Bar of Wisconsin can spend the dues that lawyers must pay when they are licensed to practice in the state.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Plymouth attorney's law license for two years.

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Prosecutors in western Wisconsin have charged a father accused of fatally shooting his teenage son from Minnesota.

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A Wisconsin man is charged with murder in the deaths of two women during a Chicago liquor store arson fire 18 years ago.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether a woman should receive $25.3 million a jury awarded her after she had four limbs amputated as a result of medical malpractice.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded an Arizona lawyer for misconduct he committed in his home state.

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The U.S. Supreme Court says Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke her left shoulder in a fall at her Washington, D.C., home.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet.

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A state appeals court says Whitehall city officials properly annexed land for a sand mine.

Wisconsin's low compensation rate for private attorneys has contributed to the shortage of lawyers willing to represent people who can't afford a private attorney, according to state officials.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has approved a reorganization of the state’s judicial administrative districts.

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A new family treatment court in Wisconsin aims to help children by more intensely addressing their parents' drug addiction.

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Some Wisconsin courts have cancelled their calendars because of record snowfall in the Green Bay, Appleton and Wausau areas over the weekend.

A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post or his conduct.

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A Green Bay attorney faces the revocation of his law license over allegations that he, among other things, mishandled more than $40,000 in client money.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin taxpayers footed a previously unknown $60,000 bill for an attorney to argue for 10 minutes before the U.S. Supreme Court in the state’s defense of a redistricting lawsuit, records obtained ...

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Records show discipline for Wisconsin employees accused of sexual harassment and misconduct in the last five years include termination, suspension and reprimands.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is suggesting Sen. Ron Johnson wouldn't have won re-election and President Donald Trump wouldn't have won Wisconsin without the state's voter ID law.

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Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is defending his free trip to London with lobbyists, travel said to have contributed to the resignation of his counterpart in Ohio.

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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler will be the keynote speaker for the University of Wisconsin Law School’s hooding ceremony.

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John Gardner, a partner at DeWitt, Ross & Stevens in Madison, rarely has a dull day.

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Wisconsin law allows Republican state Rep. Dale Kooyenga to ask family and friends to help him reimburse the state for a $30,000 theft settlement.

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