Republicans balked Wednesday at Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special legislative session next week to pass his plan for improving the state’s unemployment-benefits system in the face of a massive backlog of pandemic-induced claims.
Read More »Best of Milwaukee awards honor Judge Mosley, local law firms
Municipal Judge Derek Mosley and several Milwaukee law firms are among the winners of Shepherd Express' 2020 Best of Milwaukee awards.
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Read More »Supreme Court hears another case about DOT property damage
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering its second case of the week involving property damage allegedly caused by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation project.
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Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court focuses on redistricting
The Wisconsin Supreme Court turns its attention to redistricting on Thursday, considering a request backed by Republicans to change its current procedures for handling cases related to the once-a-decade process of drawing new political boundaries.
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Read More »Hupy promotes Hannah Dockendorff to attorney
Hupy and Abraham has promoted Hannah Dockendorff to attorney.
Read More »Michigan plans to charge ex-Gov. Snyder in Flint water probe
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they're being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, which devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water and was blamed for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 2014-15, The Associated Press has learned.
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Read More »Lindner & Marsack joins national claims defense network The Gavel
Lindner & Marsack has joined The Gavel, a national network of defense firms and insurance specialists.
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Read More »Judge Shelley Grogan enters District II Court of Appeals race
Judge Shelley Grogan has entered the race for District II Court of Appeals.
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Read More »Elections staff: Strike superintendent candidate from ballot
Staff at the Wisconsin Elections Commission have recommended that the panel keep a state schools superintendent off the spring ballot because she used "Dr." in front of her name on her nomination papers.
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Read More »Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline
Enbridge said on Tuesday it would defy Michigan's demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, contending that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision was made as a result of bad information and political posturing.
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Read More »Court considers scope of ‘lands’ definition in lawsuit over highway project
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering what the Legislature meant by the word "lands" in a gas station owner's lawsuit over a highway-expansion project that negatively impacted its business.
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Read More »Evers estimates public won’t see vaccine until June
Members of the general public in Wisconsin likely won't be vaccinated for the coronavirus until June, Gov. Tony Evers said in a letter made public Monday as he renewed his call for faster distribution of the vaccine from the federal government and state Republicans introduced a new response bill.
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Read More »Senate GOP introduces its own COVID-19 bill
Wisconsin Senate Republicans unveiled their own scaled-back COVID-19 response plan on Monday, a measure that goes farther than Gov. Tony Evers wanted in many areas but takes out several provisions he opposed that were in a bill passed by the Assembly last week.
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Read More »Gill tops $81K in campaign donations for District III race
Outagamie County Judge Greg Gill Jr. has received more than $81,000 in donations in his campaign for District III Court of Appeals.
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Read More »Green Bay man charged with 18th drunken driving offense
A 73-year-old Green Bay man has been charged with his 18th drunken driving offense, after a crash Friday that took out power lines and caused an outage.
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Read More »8 arrested in Minnesota protest over Line 3 pipeline project
Eight people were arrested in a protest to oppose construction of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline replacement in northern Minnesota, authorities said.
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Read More »State Supreme Court disagrees on Second Amendment rights of felon
The Wisconsin Supreme Court split this week on the question of what constitutes a violation of a felon's Second Amendment rights.
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Read More »Max Stephenson makes partner at GRGB
The Milwaukee-based firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown has promoted Max T. Stephenson to partner. Stephenson first joined the firm in 2012 as a law clerk, and he went on to practice all areas of family law as an attorney. Jason Luczak, ...
Read More »Cveykus raises $50k for District III Court of Appeals campaign
The Wausau attorney Rick Cveykus has raised $50,000 for his campaign for judge on the District III Court of Appeals.
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Read More »2 more state prisoners dead from coronavirus
Two more inmates have died from coronavirus in Wisconsin's prison system, bringing the total number of COVID-19 deaths to 25, according to corrections officials.
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Read More »Wisconsin Assembly passes COVID-19 bill Senate GOP opposes
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday passed a doomed COVID-19 response bill that Senate Republicans and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers are opposed to, and there's no sign of an agreement on a plan to combat the virus that has killed more than 5,000 people in the state.
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Read More »Wisconsin Assembly passes COVID-19 bill Senate GOP stands opposed to
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday passed a doomed COVID-19 response bill that Senate Republicans and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers are opposed to, and there’s no sign of an agreement on ...
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Read More »Wisconsin Republicans disagree on COVID-19 bill
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is divided on a coronavirus-response bill that the state Assembly was passing on Thursday but that the Senate GOP leader said his chamber is opposed to. Even ...
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Read More »$17.5M settlement reached in PFAS lawsuit
A company that makes fire-fighting foam containing so-called forever chemicals known as PFAS reached a $17.5 million settlement on Thursday with northern Wisconsin residents over contamination from the chemicals.
Read More »GOP Sen. Johnson says no decision on his political future
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Thursday, a day after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by supporters of President Donald Trump, that he has not made a decision yet on his ...
Read More »GOP Reps. Tiffany, Fitzgerald object to certifying Biden win
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two Wisconsin Republicans objected to certifying Joe Biden’s victories in a pair of states before his win was confirmed in a meeting of Congress that was interrupted by the storming of ...
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Read More »Trump says his term is ending, transition will be orderly
President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an "orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
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Read More »Legal Action moves to new Milwaukee office
Legal Action of Wisconsin has moved to a new office in Milwaukee.
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Read More »Biden to name judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, two people familiar with the selection process said on Wednesday.
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Read More »Federal civil-rights investigation into shooting of Jacob Blake ongoing
A federal civil-rights investigation into the shooting of Jacob Blake is ongoing, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
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