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Walker moving to revoke former priests’ state licenses
Gov. Scott Walker is suddenly pushing state officials to revoke the professional licenses of four former priests defrocked for sexually abusing children after his campaign criticized his Democratic challenger, Tony Evers, for not doing enough to protect students.
Groundskeeper accepts reduced $78M Monsanto verdict
A Northern California groundskeeper said Wednesday that he will accept a judge's reduced verdict of $78 million against Monsanto after a jury found the company's weed killer caused his cancer.
Pot verdict may discourage similar racketeering cases
A Colorado jury likely threw cold water on future legal challenges against cannabis companies by homeowners who consider filing racketeering lawsuits alleging proximity to pot operations hurts their property values, analysts and industry lawyers said Thursday.
Jury awards $68K to family of girl burned on neck by rope
A jury in Texas has awarded $68,000 in damages to the family of a 12-year-old girl who suffered rope burns to her neck during a school field trip in 2016.
Seller of gun that killed police commander sentenced
A Wisconsin man who illegally sold the handgun used to kill a Chicago police commander this year has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison.
Walker makes last-minute, new health insurance promise
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, locked in a tight re-election bid, said Thursday for the first time that he wants to enact the "exact same language" that's in federal law at the state level guaranteeing insurance for people with pre-existing conditions.
Damages awarded in class-action could range from $8.9M to more than $22M
A Nevada jury put the state and a former mental hospital administrator on the hook Thursday for class-action damages that could range from about $9 million to more than $22 million for putting patients on buses in Las Vegas for one-way trips to cities around the country.
Nevada jury: $250K a mental patient dumped to other states
A Nevada jury put the state and a former mental-hospital administrator on the hook on Thursday for class-action damages that could range from about $9 million to more than $22 million for putting patients on buses in Las Vegas for one-way trips to cities around the country.
Bond set for 3 accused in fatal Dane County beating
Prosecutors say a man was fatally beaten at his home near Lodi because his girlfriend believed he was cheating on her.
Ground search for missing Wisconsin girl scaled back
Wisconsin authorities are scaling back their ground search for a missing 13-year-old girl whose parents were shot dead, saying on Wednesday that their investigation into Jayme Closs' abduction is entering a new phase.
Electric chair builder worried execution will fail
By TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and who worries that his device will malfunction. Fred Leuchter had a successful career in the execution business […]
Referee: Lawyer ‘thumbing his nose’ at high court
A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court revoke a Green Bay attorney’s license and order him to pay $40,000 worth of restitution.
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- Questions of transparency, leadership responsibility linger over State Bar trust
- Firm demands $4.3M in dispute with Wisconsin client
- Chesebro among those charged with interfering in 2020 election
- Williams-Sonoma must pay almost $3.2 million for violating FTC’s ‘Made in USA’ order
- Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial
- Protests erupt on college campuses throughout Midwest, and U.S. over war in Gaza
- Flight attendant indicted in attempt to record minor in airplane bathroom
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
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