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As lead of Foley & Lardner’s Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations International Practice group, David Simon can’t think of the law as something that stops at the U.S. border.

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A man who killed five of his fellow employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee before shooting himself was likely driven by "mental health issues" more so than racism, Milwaukee's police chief said.

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Wisconsin is joining a coalition of states in filing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's use of $3.8 billion to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Questions of double jeopardy in a case involving child sexual assault have split the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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The mother of a 4-year-old girl who died of suffocation and a man have been arrested in South Milwaukee and are faced with felony charges in the child's death.

A man who survived being shot in the face during a white supremacist's deadly 2012 attack on a Sikh temple near Milwaukee has died of complications stemming from his injuries.

A bill establishing a council to help offenders find employment and legislation making bestiality a felony were among the more than 60 bills signed into law on Tuesday.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday signed into law four measures designed to combat the misuse of opioids and other drugs and help people who are struggling to recover following an overdose.

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The Milwaukee law firm Kohner, Mann & Kailas has prevailed in a $17 million counterclaim filed against a client in a breach-of-agreement lawsuit spanning nearly six years.

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Wisconsin Democrats are taking conservative state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly to task for holding a campaign fundraiser at a gun range after a mass shooting in Milwaukee.

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The Milwaukee County courts and judiciary became 10 percent more diverse in the past decade, according to an audit report from the Milwaukee County Office of the Comptroller.

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Gov. Tony Evers is convening a meeting of state political leaders to hear from health officials about what is being done to deal with the new coronavirus, which has been confirmed in one person so far in Wisconsin and more than 100 nationwide.

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A man stabbed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and killed her 3-year-old daughter in Wisconsin to unburden himself from his anger, according to a criminal complaint.

A federal judge fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his truck for poaching a raptor.

Gov. Tony Evers on Monday signed into law a bill supported by disability-rights advocates and parents to establish more procedures governing when schools can restrain students or place them in seclusion.

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A state appeals court refused Tuesday to refund $4.2 million that two airlines paid in Wisconsin property taxes.

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Last year resulted in some questionable judicial behavior. The National Center for State Courts Center for Judicial Ethics released a roundup of some of the worst behavior in its 2019 Judicial Conduct Report.

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A national organization dedicated to helping LGBTQ candidates get elected has endorsed Brett Blomme for Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge.

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Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill Friday that provides a new contract to the Wisconsin State Patrol that includes a nearly 10% retroactive raise.

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Gov. Tony Evers vetoed four bills in the Republican-backed "Tougher on Crime" bill package on Friday. The measures aimed to impose tougher sanctions and sentences on criminals, including making it easier to revoke extended supervision, parole or probation for people charged with a crime.

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A Wisconsin appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that ordered the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state's voter rolls.

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A West Allis woman has been sentenced to two year in prison for embezzling about $30,000 from her former employer and impersonating an attorney.

New leaders of the Democratic National Convention's local committee in Milwaukee were announced Friday, replacing previous ones who were fired amid allegations that they oversaw a toxic work environment.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and other state attorneys general have reached a $1.6 billion trust agreement with the largest generic opioid manufacturer in the U.S.

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The Wisconsin Building Commission approved $348.1 million for projects across the state, including grant funds for Secure Residential Care Centers for Children and Youth to replace Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools.

Federal authorities in Wisconsin said Thursday they have charged 24 people associated with a violent drug-trafficking organization in Milwaukee known as the Buffum Meinecke Boys.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission is warning six unnamed places in the state that if they don't quickly improve their outdated computer systems that are susceptible to hacking, they will be publicly scolded.

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Three new lawyers are joining von Briesen's Wisconsin offices. The firm announced on Thursday that it has hired Joshua Cronin, John Rubin and Brian Seidl.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice is assisting with the investigation into a deadly shooting at a Milwaukee brewery.

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A Wisconsin appellate court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in the poisoning death in 1998 of his wife.

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