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The question of whether the Constitution imposes an age limit on being sentenced to life in prison has left the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court struggling over where to draw difficult lines.

Tagged with: Anthony Kennedy Antonin Scalia Constitution Miller v. Alabama Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer

A Wednesday afternoon boycott staged by four state justices enhanced the fractured image of the Supreme Court and could happen again if its leader doesn’t conform to a new protocol.

Tagged with: Ann Walsh Bradley Annette Ziegler David Prosser Marquette University Law School Michael Gableman Patience Roggensack Patrick Crooks Rick Esenberg Shirley Abrahamson Supreme Court WI Supreme Court Wisconsin Judicial Commission

10-1487 Paine v. Cason

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest Civil Rights Digest Qualified immunity

11-2969 U.S. v. Konczak

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest

2009AP1325 State ex rel. Obriecht v. Thurmer

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest Ineffective assistance WI Court of Appeals Digest

2010AP2811-CR State v. Martin

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Jury instructions Martin WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP243-CR State v. Maldonado

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Evidence Digest Other acts WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP886 Rosenthal, et al. v. Village of Ashwaubenon, et al.

Tagged with: breach of contract Civil Digest Property Digest Unjust enrichment WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP1299-CR State v. Gutierrez-Hernandez

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest custody Miranda warnings WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP2853 State v. Liederbach

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Motor Vehicles Digest Speeding Sufficiency of the evidence WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP150 Marnholtz v. Church Mut. Ins. Co.

Tagged with: Civil Digest Insurance Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

2010AP1490 State v. Phillips

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Jury instructions Sexually Violent Persons Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

Appellate court judges in Wisconsin on Wednesday denied an appeal to overturn an injunction on the state’s voter identification law.

Tagged with: David Flanagan District 2 Court of Appeals voter ID

Felony judges in Milwaukee are considering consolidation of preliminary hearings in response to a new law that largely gutted the value of those proceedings.

Tagged with: Craig Mastantuono hearsay evidence Rick Sankovitz

Most days, Jim Troupis doesn’t know what faces he’ll see when he walks through the door of his Middleton-based firm, Troupis Law Office LLC.

Tagged with: Jim Troupis Practice Management technology

11-139 U.S. v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC

Tagged with: Civil Digest Income tax SCOTUS Digest statute of limitations Tax Digest

2010AP3006 In re the marriage of: Umnus v. Umnus

Tagged with: Civil Digest Family Digest modification WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP274 In re the award of attorney fees, actual expenses and costs: Village of Elm Grove vs. Michels Corp.

Tagged with: Civil Digest Civil Procedure Digest Michels Corp. New trials WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP1761 In re the marriage of: Findley v. Gibbons

Tagged with: Civil Digest contempt Family Digest Property division WI Court of Appeals Digest

Cutting costs while balancing workload is an ongoing struggle for most solo and small firm owners.

Tagged with: Practice Management solo solo practitioner

The majority of justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court have been asked to step aside in the pending disciplinary case against their colleague, Justice David Prosser.

Tagged with: choke David Prosser recusal Wisconsin Judicial Commission

The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduced the sentencing disparity between defendants convicted of crack cocaine-related crimes and those convicted of crimes involving the powder version of the drug.

Tagged with: cocaine crack Crack cocaine Fair Sentencing Act John Roberts Jr. Michael Dreeben Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sonia Sotomayor

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took up a complicated bankruptcy case Monday, parsing the language of the Bankruptcy Code to determine if a Chapter 11 debtor must give a secured creditor the right to credit bid items being sold at auction.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Antonin Scalia certiorari John Roberts Supreme Court

No issues are too great for Joel Aziere and the dogs he rescues.

Tagged with: Joel Aziere

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is tapping a rarely used judicial process to bring criminal charges against a man who threatened a Madison radio talk show host.

Tagged with: David Clarke Jeffrey Kremers Michael Whitcomb threats

11-2603 MB Financial, N.A., v. Stevens

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Civil Digest Civil Procedure Digest sanctions

11-1348 U.S. v. Bahena-Navarro

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest

10-9995 Wood v. Milyard

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest forfeiture Habeas Corpus SCOTUS Digest

2011AP1251-CR State v. Brisco

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP1874 Berg v. Secura Insurance, et al.

Tagged with: Civil Digest Negligence Torts Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest