The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.
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Read More »The Supreme Court will consider ending a lawsuit that claims Nestle and Cargill aided in the use of child-slave labor on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, a case that could further limit access to U.S. courts by victims of human-rights abuses abroad.
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Read More »The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics.
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Read More »The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with the garbage-disposal giant Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc. over allegedly illegal hazardous-waste practices at a landfill in Franklin. The proposed settlement, announced on Thursday, calls for increased monitoring for hazardous waste near ...
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Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Justice has been called to investigate a shooting involving a police officer in Sheboygan Thursday.
Read More »A Wisconsin city that is named after Christopher Columbus will vote on whether to remove a statue of its namesake at a time when monuments honoring various historic figures are being criticized following protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Read More »A judge on Wednesday threw out Racine's coronvirus ordinance as unconstitutional.
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Albert S. Orr is the new chief executive officer of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't hear oral arguments in a lawsuit seeking to purge thousands of voters from the rolls until at least September, raising questions about whether the justices will rule before the Nov. 3 presidential election.
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Read More »A Mequon attorney accused of "blowing off" two of his clients could lose his law license for 60 days.
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Read More »Public health officials are closing indoor service at bars in Madison as the Fourth of July weekend approaches and as the number of coronavirus cases accelerate, many involving young people in Wisconsin's largest college town.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers is accepting applications for an open judge’s seat on Dane County Circuit Court Branch 17. The new appointee will replace Judge Peter Anderson, who is resigning on Aug. 4. The new judge will complete a term ending July 31, 2021. ...
Read More »Bond has been set at $100,000 cash for a 22-year-old man accused of driving recklessly before a crash that killed three people in Green Bay.
Read More »Gov. Tony Evers' office said there is no written record of anyone authorizing one of his aides to secretly record a phone call with top Republican lawmakers.
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Read More »A reward has been doubled to $10,000 for information leading to whoever set fire to a biracial Wisconsin woman who says she was attacked while she was driving.
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It’s been a busy month for Legal Action of Wisconsin, which offers free legal help to low-income tenants who are threatened with eviction.
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Read More »Patrick Marley Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Six weeks after the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the state’s stay-at-home order, city and county officials are learning they may have little ability to control the spread of the coronavirus. A lawsuit in Racine ...
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Read More »Bond has been set at $100,000 cash for a 22-year-old man accused of driving recklessly before a crash that killed three people in Green Bay.
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Billions of dollars offered by Congress as a lifeline to small businesses struggling to survive the pandemic are about to be left on the table when a key government program stops accepting applications for loans.
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Read More »The Supreme Court says travel website Booking.com can trademark its name, a ruling that also impacts other companies whose name is a generic word followed by ".com."
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Read More »The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block the execution of four federal prison inmates who are scheduled to be put to death in July and August.
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Read More »The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public money, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.
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The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.
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“We shouldn’t have to celebrate as African-Americans when we get a piece of justice like today. We shouldn’t have to celebrate and parade when an officer is held accountable.” So said L. Chris Stewart, an attorney representing the widow of ...
Read More »A Wisconsin teenager has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his grandparents, but his lawyers will argue at a trial that he shouldn't be held criminally responsible because he was mentally ill.
Read More »A federal appeals court panel upheld a host of Republican-sponsored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, handing conservatives a significant win in a pair of lawsuits just months before residents in the battleground state cast their ballots for president.
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Read More »Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of state attorneys general calling for President Donald Trump to withdraw an executive order that allows federal agencies to avoid full compliance with environmental laws on infrastructure projects.
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Read More »The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office is asking for permission to use grant money to continue paying for two assistant district attorney positions.
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Read More »The Supreme Court has upheld a provision of federal law that requires foreign affiliates of U.S.-based health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition of receiving taxpayer money to fight AIDS around the world.
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Read More »A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
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