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Racine County judge responds to misconduct allegations
A Racine County judge is admitting to allegations that he violated the state’s judicial code.
Weekly Case Digests — July 23-July 27, 2018
Weekly Case Digests — July 23-July 27, 2018
Hearing set in Milwaukee attorney’s reinstatement bid
A reinstatement hearing is scheduled in a Milwaukee lawyer’s second bid to get his law license back.
OLR: Referee’s recommendation ‘inappropriately lenient’
The Office of Lawyer Regulation is challenging a referee’s recommendation that a lawyer out of La Crosse not be suspended for mishandling nearly $30,000 placed in a trust account and then using her own money to try to cover her tracks.
Breach of Contract
Marquette University suspended a tenured faculty member because of a blog post criticizing an encounter between an instructor and a student.
Motion to Suppress Evidence
This is a review of the Bayfield County circuit court's order granting Christopher John Kerr's ("Kerr") motion to suppress evidence discovered during a search incident to arrest on the basis that "'judicial integrity' is vital enough to justify exclusion of evidence when the issuing court's arrest warrant was invalid ab initio."
ERISA – Pensions
When the Employee Retirement System (ERS) was created for the City of Milwaukee (the City) in 1937, the State granted each employee-member of the ERS the right to vote for the election of three employees to serve on the ERS Annuity and Pension Board (the Board) comprised of seven members.
Plea Withdrawal – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
The petitioner, Patrick Dalton, seeks review of an unpublished court of appeals decision affirming his judgment of conviction and sentence and upholding the circuit court's order denying his postconviction motion.
OWI – 4th Amendment Violation
Gerald Mitchell was convicted of operating while intoxicated and with a prohibited alcohol concentration, based on the test of blood drawn without a warrant while he was unconscious, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 343.305(3)(b) (2013–14).
Termination of Parental Rights
A.D. raises two arguments challenging the circuit court’s order terminating her parental rights to D.D., both directed at the court’s grant of partial summary judgment on the ground of “[c]ontinuing denial of periods of physical placement or visitation,” establishing parental unfitness.
Email Volunteer System – Jurisdiction
In this appeal from a domestic abuse injunction order, Robert Evans argues that an unlawful “email volunteer system” was used to assign a substitute judge.
Court Error – Jury Instructions
Patrick Mackie appeals a judgment of conviction for first-degree child sexual assault, following a jury trial.
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- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
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