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Clerks warn GOP primary plan ‘impossible’ to implement
Local clerks are balking at Republican plans to move Wisconsin's 2020 presidential primary, saying the proposed change would lead to so many headaches it would be impossible to carry out.
WHO’S DOING WHAT: State Bar names Innovator award winners; attorneys earn honors
The State Bar of Wisconsin honored the following six legal innovators as part of its “That’s a Fine Idea: Legal Innovation Wisconsin” initiative.
Lawsuit: Student suspended after reporting sexual assault
School officials didn't believe a Georgia high school student and illegally retaliated against her after she reported that she was sexually assaulted by another student, according to a civil rights lawsuit.
Girl Scout leader dismissed after event for crash victims
A Girl Scout troop leader in Green Bay has lost her job in the wake of a fundraiser her troop held for families of victims of a fatal crash near Chippewa Falls.
Shots fired into Milwaukee home kill 13-year-old girl
A 13-year-old girl was killed when shots were fired into her Milwaukee home.
Protesters disrupt regulatory hearing on Enbridge pipeline
Minnesota regulators reaffirmed their support Monday for Enbridge Energy's proposal to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota, while dozens of protesters walked out of the overflow hearing to make a point about climate change.
Milwaukee police: Leaving child in towed van ‘unacceptable’
The Milwaukee Police Department says it is "simply unacceptable" that a 4-year-old girl was left overnight in a van that police had requested to tow.
Mobile home residents who lived in ‘squalor’ awarded $5.5M
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury awarded more than $5.5 million to 31 residents of a Southern California mobile home park rife with problems, including sinkholes, sewage backups and rats. Jurors also found the owners of Friendly Village liable for elder abuse, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Monday. The amount of punitive damages in that […]
Referee: La Crosse attorney violated attorney-ethics rules
A referee has found that a La Crosse attorney violated three attorney-ethics rules while working on a divorce case.
Lawyer who battled Chevron may get chance to defend himself against disbarment
A New York attorney who won a landmark oil pollution judgment against Chevron in Ecuador's court system only to have his law license suspended at home for malpractice never got a fair hearing and should be allowed to defend himself against disbarment, a legal referee has ruled.
Are court costs imposed on criminal defendants an illegal tax?
By ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is hearing a dispute over $1,611. The result, however, will carry a much higher price, impacting millions of dollars now raked in from criminal defendants who must pay to keep the heat turned up, the air conditioners humming and the floors waxed in local […]
Rights group: 40 lawyers, activists arrested
An international rights group says Egypt has rounded up at least 40 lawyers and activists since last month, the latest arrests in a wide-scale crackdown on dissent.
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- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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