Wisconsin Law Journal – WI Legal News & Resources Wisconsin Legal News & Resources

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a correction was made to paragraph 7 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on July 1, 2021.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Charles Neevel was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Under the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), a state agency contemplating a “major action[] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment” must prepare and publish an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): a detailed report evaluating potential environmental effects.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

For over thirty years, Island Camping, Inc. has operated a commercial campground on an approximately twenty-acre narrow strip of land along the Mississippi River.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Michael Anthony Turner, pro se, appeals the circuit court’s order dismissing his petition for a writ of certiorari.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

This case involves open land, currently in a natural state, that was sold by the same seller twice.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

S.H. appeals from orders entered in two cases, now consolidated on appeal, terminating his parental rights to his two children on the grounds of the continuing denial of his periods of physical placement under WIS. STAT. § 48.415(4).

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Larry A. Brown appeals his judgment of conviction with regard to his sentence, specifically relating to the trial court’s denial of his motion to expunge the conviction from his record.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Jeffrey Lemont Lee appeals his judgment of conviction for aggravated battery, substantial battery, disorderly conduct with the use of a dangerous weapon, and felony bail jumping, all with domestic abuse assessments and as a habitual offender.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Guillermo Mendoza appeals a judgment convicting him of incest and first-degree sexual assault of a child.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Salar Zangana appeals from a judgment of conviction for misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct and from orders of the trial court denying his motion for postconviction relief and his motion for reconsideration.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Lawrence Griffin, Jr. appeals his judgment of conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Juan Castillo appeals a judgment convicting him of one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child (sexual contact with a person under the age of thirteen).

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Michael James Brehm appeals a judgment entered after a guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon and an order denying postconviction relief.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

David Wayne Ross appeals his judgment of conviction for two counts of second-degree sexual assault.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Joe Meier, pro se, appeals from an order denying reconsideration of the denial of his motion to vacate a default judgment.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Travis appeals from an order for involuntary commitment under WIS. STAT. ch. 51.

Tagged with: Civil Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Jeremy Schenck produced child pornography.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Dragan Kaplarevic filed for disability insurance benefits in December 2012, alleging that he became disabled on August 1, 2012.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Plaintiff Linda Bergal brought this malpractice case against her attorney Ben Roth, his law firm, and accountant Joseph Sanders.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Defendants Champion Petfoods USA Inc. and Champion Petfoods LP (collectively, “Champion”) produce dog food that they market as biologically appropriate, containing fresh regional ingredients, and never outsourced.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Jacob Wessel had a history of mental issues. On August 11, 2016, he allegedly raised a gun toward a police officer.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Petitioner Victor Mejia-Padilla (“Mejia”) seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals sustaining the denial of his statutory motion to reopen his deportation proceeding, which he filed more than six years after that proceeding closed.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Statutory interpretation is familiar territory for federal courts, and this appeal requires us to resolve a dispute over the scope of a statutory credit—taken against excise fuel taxes—that Congress made available to producers of “alternative fuel mixtures.”

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Prairie Rivers Network is an Illinois non-profit organization that advocates for clean water and healthy rivers.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

“Better late than never” is not a phrase typically heard in a federal courthouse.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

In August 2016 Millicent Nartey was admitted to a hospital where she suffered a stroke and eventually passed away.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

StarNet Insurance Company filed suit in diversity seeking a declaratory judgment specifying that the terms of a workers’ compensation and employers liability policy it issued to P.S. Demolition, Inc. obligate it to pay nothing more for a workplace injury than the amounts that Illinois workers’ compensation law requires P.S. Demolition to pay its injured employees.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

Adrian Thomas sued several prison officials at Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois alleging they violated the Eighth Amendment by restricting him for two months to a cell with feces on the walls, a mattress covered in human waste, a bunk bed with a hundred dead flies, and inadequate plumbing that caused him to develop a rash.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest

This insurance dispute stems from Robert Shockley, Jr., filing a civil complaint in Illinois state court.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest