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Bill to add penalties for harassing lawmakers
A Wisconsin lawmaker is pushing for tougher laws to deter people who would intimidate or harm members of the Legislature and their families.
Man who killed Summit police officers wins release
A man who killed two Summit police officers nearly 40 years ago has won release from a Wisconsin mental hospital.
Racine man requests not to attend own trial
A 68-year-old Racine man accused of killing a retired school teacher and robbing her of quarters doesn't want to be present for his trial.
US Supreme Court justices have mixed feelings in mixed-motive Title VII case
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to have mixed feelings about allowing an employee asserting a Title VII-based retaliation claim to prove that his complaint of discrimination was one motivating factor for the employer’s adverse action rather than the but-for cause.
Rule would boost Medicare whistleblower bounty to $10M
A proposed rule to drastically increase whistleblower rewards paid for information leading to successful Medicare fraud actions to as high as nearly $10 million was proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services this week.
Supreme Court creates another snag for class actions
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt another blow to class actions in its recent decision allowing an employer to get rid of a wage class action by “picking off” the named plaintiff before it begins.
Attorney brings class-action background to Wisconsin practice
Doug Dehler honed his specialty skills as a class-action attorney out of state, but now he’s brought them home.
Things to consider before forming a small-firm partnership
It’s said that two is company, and three is a crowd.
Two tort-reform proposals move ahead, one likely dies (UPDATE)
Two Wisconsin tort reform proposals received approvals from a legislative judiciary committee Thursday and one more or less died.
Proposal changing informed consent law advances (UPDATE)
Doctors would not be required to give patients as much information about alternative treatments available to them under a bill passed by an Assembly committee.
Mom pleads not guilty in 3 kids’ fire deaths
A Milwaukee-area woman who lost three of her four children in a fire this month after she left them alone in a locked bedroom has pleaded not guilty to charges of felony child neglect.
State Supreme Court urged to take collective bargaining lawsuit (UPDATE)
A state appeals court on Thursday urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.
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- Wisconsin law requires vehicles to stay back from a working snowplow
- Jan. 6 suits can proceed
- House Expulsion of Santos marks sixth in chamber’s history
- PIP, SSI benefits cases to be heard during December arguments
- Court: City violated order in dispute over fire departments
- Judge bars media cameras in slayings case, but the court will livestream
- $2 million awarded by Federal jury for MPD excessive force, officers’ failure to intervene
- Wisconsin Attorney General joins multistate Amicus Brief to uphold laws restricting gun magazine capacity
- Lawyer with ties to Brookfield, Wis. sentenced to four Years in Federal Prison
- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93
- Gov. Evers appoints Toni L. Young to the Racine County Circuit Court
- Gov. Evers appoints Frank Gagliardi to the Kenosha County Circuit Court
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