More law librarians are using Zoom online videoconferencing to talk to patrons working from a distance, according to the 2020 Law Library Benchmarks report.
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The public has become more comfortable with the idea of remote court appearances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent poll from the National Center for State Courts.
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Milwaukee County's top lawyer can't practice law at the moment because of a license suspension over a missed deadline by when she was supposed to show she had completed continuing legal-education requirements.
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Jury trials will resume in Waukesha County on Tuesday with protective measures in place to minimize risk of COVID-19 transmission.
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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 »A Mequon attorney accused of "blowing off" two of his clients could lose his law license for 60 days.
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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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“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 »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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Judge J.P. Stadtmueller of the Eastern District of Wisconsin reached a milestone in his career at a Milwaukee construction executive's sentencing hearing this morning. Stadtmueller said Brian Ganos was close to the 2,200th defendant he's sentenced in his 33 years on the bench.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't allow a disbarred Florida attorney to practice law in Wisconsin.
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Read More »Weekly Case Digests – June 22, 2020 – June 26, 2020
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Read More »Racine County Circuit Court Judge Jon Fredrickson and Racine city officials are in a war of words over a lawsuit challenging the city's COVID-19 public-health orders. Fredrickson cautioned city officials against undermining a temporary injunction order in the case, an order the mayor called "extremely troubling.
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Read More »Attorney Robert C. Menard has appealed a referee's recommendation that his license to practice law in Wisconsin be revoked; that he be ordered to make restitution to a number of clients; and that he be ordered to pay the full costs of this proceeding, which are $18,191.42 as of October 25, 2019.
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Read More »We review a stipulation pursuant to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 22.12 between the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and Attorney Diane R. Caspari.
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Read More »Eleanor Curtiss appeals a circuit court order that granted summary judgment to Bruce Ellery and dismissed Curtiss’s negligence action for injuries Curtiss suffered on a bus driven by Ellery, and an order denying reconsideration.
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Read More »Paul Jones, by counsel, appeals his judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained in a warrantless police search of a vehicle.
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Read More »Jamie Coogan was serving a jail sentence when Iowa County Sheriff Steven Michek determined, based on an inmate classification system created by the Sheriff, that Coogan would not be released under the Huber Law, even though the circuit court had expressly ordered Huber release for Coogan.
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Read More »John Neighbors appeals from judgments finding him guilty of six county zoning ordinance violations, after the trial court denied his motion to dismiss on the grounds of selective prosecution.
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Read More »Tammy Genevieve Hardenburg appeals a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, of one count of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of prescription drugs as a sixth offense.
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Read More »Mario Emmanuel James, pro se, appeals the order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2017-18) motion without a hearing.
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State Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack said she has long been interested in whether judges were responsible for the large number of Black people who are behind bars. She then pointed the judges to a 2016 paper she wrote on "race and sentencing" and the work of the Supreme Court statistician, Michael Thompson, on "race and Wisconsin courts."
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Read More »A Milwaukee attorney has received his second law-license suspension in less than one month, marking his fifth disciplinary action in the state.
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Read More »Ismet Islami (Ismet) appeals a summary judgment order in favor of Kemper Insurance Company (Kemper) denying coverage for loss of her home stemming from a fire intentionally set by Ydbi Islami (Ydbi), from whom Ismet is legally separated.
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Read More »Roberto Cornejo appeals the judgment convicting him of two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. See WIS. STAT. § 940.225(1)(d) (1985-86).
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Read More »Catherine Wilcox appeals from a judgment of divorce, in which the circuit court ordered the partial reimbursement of filing fees, and from an order denying what her notice of appeal designates as a “Motion to Amend the Judgment.”
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Read More »Nancy Kucharski appeals a judgment dismissing her action to terminate an easement over her property.
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Read More »The State appeals from an order granting David Hay’s motion to suppress the results of a warrantless blood draw performed after Hay was arrested for fifth offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and from an order denying the State’s motion for reconsideration.
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Read More »Haiyan Chen, a citizen of China, entered the United States without inspection (that is, by stealth) in 2004.
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