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2010AP2831 Integrity Construction Group Inc. v. Neary

Tagged with: Attorney fees Civil Digest Consumer Protection Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP38-CR, 2011AP39-CR State v. Jacobson

Tagged with: Confrontation Clause Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest Ineffective assistance speedy trial WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP82 State v. Wilfert

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

2011AP188-CR State v. Bunch

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Plain view Search and Seizure Digest Warrantless searches WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP284-CR State v. Nash

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

2011AP600 In re the marriage of: Imig v. Imig

Tagged with: change in circumstances Civil Digest Family Digest maintenance modification WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP774-CR State v. Brewer

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

2011AP1041 Tabor v. Kronich, et al.

Tagged with: CGL policies Civil Digest duty to defend Insurance Digest WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP630-CR State v. Powell

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Sufficiency of evidence WI Court of Appeals Digest

2011AP788 Beidel v. Sideline Software, Inc.

Tagged with: Civil Digest Contracts Digest Good faith WI Court of Appeals Digest

All four incumbent circuit judges running for re-election in the spring survived the Tuesday primary, but three finished second on the ballots.

Tagged with: Branch 2 Carolina Stark Christopher Lipscomb election Ellen Berz Jason Rossell Nelson Phillips Roger Allen William Kussel

The state Assembly has passed a bill that would put an end to punitive and compensatory damages for workplace discrimination.

Tagged with: compensatory damages discrimination punitive damages

A Madison attorney hired to provide legal guidance on legislative redistricting in Wisconsin is the subject of an ethics complaint filed with the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

Tagged with: Eric McLeod Michael Best & Friedrich office of lawyer regulation OLR redistricting

For the first time since enactment of sec.801.54(2), governing which court should hear a case when both state and tribal courts have jurisdiction, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will interpret the new rule.

Tagged with: Court of Appeals Davis & Kuelthau SC Michael Brown Wisconsin Supreme Court

A felony gun case against a Wauwatosa attorney took a unique twist Tuesday when the defense announced plans to challenge the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s gun silencer statute.

Tagged with: Allison Ritter Charles Kahn Ray Dall’Osto

10-577 Kawashima v. Holder

Tagged with: Civil Digest Holder Immigration Digest removal SCOTUS Digest

10-680 Howes v. Fields

Tagged with: Criminal Digest Criminal Procedure Digest custody Miranda warnings SCOTUS Digest

While there are no statewide judicial races to attract voters this spring, Wisconsin will have six circuit court primaries Tuesday.

Tagged with: Carolina Stark Christopher Lipscomb Circuit court election Ellen Berz Jack Hoag Jason Rossell Michael Bloom Nelson Phillips Roger Allen William Kussel

Few rulings on appeal are as frustrating for a defense attorney as one that holds the defense is correct on the merits, but that the error was harmless.

Tagged with: David Hamilton Seventh Circuit Supreme Court

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new final rule governing the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program that the agency said will give U.S. workers greater protections and job access.

Tagged with: Department of Labor DOL

The local newspaper disappeared and the Wall Street Journal took its place between the attorney’s face and the bankruptcy presentation at the front of the room.

Tagged with: BBE Board of Bar Examiners CLE Continuing Legal Education Jacquelynn Rothstein Milwaukee Bar Association Paul Swanson

Dissolving same-sex relationships offer business and transactional attorneys a relatively untapped, unexpected market.

Tagged with: Haley Palmersheim Patrick Roney same-sex marriage Supreme Court

A $52 million federal jury verdict won by a small Middleton firm is the largest patent infringement award in the history of the Western District and could triple in coming weeks.

Tagged with: Barbara Crabb Court of Appeals Jim Troupis patent Patent infringement Perkins Coie

In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for large groups of plaintiffs to prove that they should proceed in a class action, courts have been taking a harder look at a key type of evidence plaintiffs use to make that case: expert witness testimony.

Tagged with: class action expert testimony Supreme Court

When attorney Pat Brennan graduated law school in 1981, he could have joined his father’s Janesville law practice, Brennan Steil SC.

Tagged with: Asked & Answered CLE Crivello Carlson Marquette University Law School State Bar

11-2293 U.S. v. Henzel

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Digest Criminal Digest Sentencing Digest sexual assault

Legislators introduced a bill Wednesday to establish a pay progression system for assistant State Public Defenders.

Tagged with: Randy Kraft SPD

Civil practitioners say a new federal venue law that quietly went into effect last month will lead to an increase in diversity-based discovery and cut down on the “jurisdictional gamesmanship” that regularly occurs in litigation.

Tagged with: Venue

United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Civil Civil Procedure – Removal – remand When all federal claims have been dropped from a lawsuit removed to federal court, it was not an abuse of discretion to remand the ...

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United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Criminal Criminal Procedure — Miranda warnings — custody Where a defendant was believed he would be free to leave questioning to attend a parent-teacher conference later, he was not in custody. ...

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