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Gerald Wollin and other plaintiffs appeal an order dismissing their claim for a prescriptive easement based on adverse use of a road on land owned by respondent Stephen Doljanin.

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Michael Lyubchenko appeals a June 2019 order finding him in contempt for failure to follow a February 2018 order that required him to amend his 2015 income tax filings and file a joint 2015 tax return with his former spouse, Tatiana Laiter, and share equally with Laiter any refund, liability, and costs to prepare the taxes.

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S.K. appeals from the circuit court’s order involuntarily terminating his parental rights (TPR) to K.S-S.

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M.W. appeals from an order of the circuit court extending her involuntary mental health commitment and also challenges an order for involuntary medication and treatment.

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Child support payments in a divorce are typically ordered as monthly lump sum payments derived under a formula prescribed by state law.

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John Hudson appeals from a judgment convicting him of incest and first-degree sexual assault of a child and from a circuit court order denying his postconviction motion seeking a new trial due to ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

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Markea L. Brown appeals from a judgment of conviction and an order denying her postconviction motion.

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G.R.H. appeals the order requiring him to comply with the sex offender registration requirement for fifteen years, as well as the order adjudicating him delinquent.

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Christopher D. Wilson appeals a judgment convicting him of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) as a second offense and endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon while under the influence of an intoxicant.

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This appeal and cross-appeal involve a dispute between two adjoining landowners—James and Judith Cobb on one side, and Gary King on the other.

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Trumbull Insurance Company appeals a judgment finding it liable to Mark Meisner in the amount of $250,000, which was the maximum amount of underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage available under a policy Trumbull had issued to Meisner.

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War Nakula-Reginald Marion, pro se, appeals an order of the circuit court denying his “Motion Requesting Time Served With Concurrent Sentence.”

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Celso M. Deleon-Yuja appeals the circuit court order denying postconviction relief as well as the underlying judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree child sexual assault—sexual contact with a child under age thirteen.

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Steven and Shannon Eckley appeal a judgment of foreclosure.

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Jonathan Liebzeit appeals an order denying his WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2019-20), motion for a new trial.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked the law license of a western Wisconsin attorney with a "considerable" disciplinary history, writing that the legal profession has "no place" for his unethical behavior.

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Demoted, disparaged, and deprived of a free government car, Stafford Garbutt decided that he could no longer tolerate what he believed to be criminal conduct by his boss and co‐workers, conduct that he himself had been engaging in for more than ten years.

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In the spring of 2012, Zenon Grzegorczyk hired two men to kill his ex-wife and five of her friends in exchange for $48,000.

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In 2005 Dean Guenther was convicted of a federal firearms crime in Minnesota and was sentenced as an armed career criminal based in part on his prior Minnesota burglary convictions.

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London Triplett seeks relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, for the alleged ineffectiveness of his counsel in a state criminal proceeding.

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This case began as a divorce and child custody dispute in state court.

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Erica Flores’s life came to an untimely end when Officer Justin Gorny of the South Bend, Indiana, police department careened through residential streets and a red light at speeds up to 98 mph to reach a routine traffic stop he was not invited to aid, crashed into Flores’s car, and killed her.

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The First Amendment does not protect child pornography. In challenging his conviction for inducing sexually explicit videos from a minor, Timothy Fredrickson asks us to reconsider this well-established principle.

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Katherine Black sued two defendants for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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The Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has approved budget increases for state courts, district attorneys and public defenders.

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Weekly Case Digests – June 6, 2021 – June 11, 2021

S.N.W. petitioned for review of the decision of the court of appeals, Fond du Lac Cnty. v. S.N.W., No. 2019AP2073, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. June 17, 2020), affirming the circuit court's orders for involuntary commitment and involuntary medication and treatment.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has opted not to act on proposed rule change that aimed to expand state courts' ability to use videoconferencing but, in doing so, raised concerns about defendants' rights.

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This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals, State v. Christen, No. 2019AP1767-CR, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Mar. 17, 2020), affirming the Dane County circuit court's judgment convicting Mitchell Christen of operating or going This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals, State v. Christen, No. 2019AP1767-CR, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. Mar. 17, 2020), affirming the Dane County circuit court's judgment convicting Mitchell Christen of operating or going armed with a firearm while intoxicated, contrary to Wis. Stat. § 941.20(1)(b) (2017-18).

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Cheryl Furstace Daniels has been sworn in as the new president of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

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