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Commentary: FDA should have no power to ban caffeine in alcohol
On Nov. 13, the Food & Drug Administration sent notices to 30 alcohol manufacturers that they may be in violation of the law for adding caffeine to various alcoholic beverages. Since caffeine and alcohol comprise two of my four basic food groups (nicotine and lard being the other two), I am deeply concerned by this. […]
Commentary: Honor, solemnity must be protected
Last Thursday, a young woman I know, Sgt. Amy Krueger, was murdered, along with a dozen others, at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. This woman was a friend of my roommates, and she would stay at our house when she was in town. She joined the military after the attacks on Sept. 11, […]
Commentary: Government promises subsidized health care to attorneys
Yesterday, I discovered that I am no longer young. Yes, I know, those of you in the Milwaukee Young Lawyers’ Association or the Milwaukee Conservative Young Professionals, or other organizations like that, could have informed me of this fact long ago. But I didn’t realize it until yesterday. Two things triggered the discovery. First, I […]
Commentary: Proposed bill could make me rich!
I think I might be leaving the Wisconsin Law Journal to go back to private practice, depending on the passage of certain legislation pending in the Assembly. I think it could make me very wealthy. Before joining the Law Journal, I spent nine years doing criminal defense, specializing in sexual assault cases. I tried many […]
Commentary: A contest to determine the most employee-friendly law firm
This week marks a first for The Dark Side – it’s the first reader contest! An award will be given to the reader who submits an entry describing why his or her law firm is the most employee-friendly in Wisconsin. First, a word to the wise. If your firm has previously been honored by another […]
Commentary: I can’t even be trusted to buy bananas
Over the weekend, I went to my favorite corporate-owned chain coffee shop. While there, I participated in a dastardly crime. No, I didn’t hold the place up with a gun. But I did buy a banana. How is that a crime, you ask? Well, I paid 90 cents for it; they were selling bananas for […]
Commentary: Picking peppers in the enlightened police state
Have you ever wondered who smokes the grape and peach flavored cigars that are available for individual sale in gas stations? Those few of you who are even less hip than I am may think, as the government claims, that these flavored cigars are “gateway” drugs, and the fruity artificial flavors are the enticement that […]
Commentary: Boohoo! Insurance rates are unfair
Here’s a story I’m sure you’ve heard a thousand times before: A middle-aged, middle-class attorney gets divorced, and moves out of his house in the suburbs. Still saddled with a large mortgage and confiscatory property taxes on a house in which he is no longer able to live, there’s not much money to live anywhere […]
Commentary: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was de facto taking of property
The Cash for Clunkers program has come and gone, and like most, if not all, government interferences in the market, its primary effect has been to transfer wealth from the poor and powerless to the wealthy and influential. Consider its effect on a friend of mine, a young woman who, like most young people, doesn’t […]
Commentary: This funeral would be long overdue
On Sept. 11, Milwaukee attorney Alan D. Eisenberg defended himself before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is considering whether to sanction him for his conduct in filing a frivolous lawsuit. He said that he feared the hearing would be the funeral for his law practice. Hopefully, it will be just that. First, I’d like to […]
Commentary: When is a contract not a contract?
INSURANCE (in-shuur-ents), n. 1. An agreement by which one party (the insurer) commits to do something of value for another party (the insured) upon the occurrence of some specified contingency; esp., an agreement by which one party assumes a risk faced by another party in return for a premium payment.” (Black’s Law Dictionary (7th ed. […]
Amend, don’t end, the diploma privilege
The question of whether Wisconsin’s diploma privilege violates the dormant Commerce Clause by discriminating against out-of-state law students and law schools is back before the district court. The issue the court must decide, on remand from the Seventh Circuit, is whether legal instruction at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette provides sufficient education in Wisconsin […]
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- A ‘police dialogue team’ from Ohio is facilitating peaceful protests during the RNC. Here’s how.
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- Caution surrounds firm’s AI usage
- How Hmong women in Wisconsin are tackling domestic violence in their communities
- Beloit School District rescinds scholarship’s racial eligibility criterion following WILL’s legal threat
- Day One RNC: Trump taps VP; protests erupt during nomination
- Law enforcement from Tulsa to Maryland and North Carolina volunteer to assist during RNC
- Republicans are gathering in Milwaukee to nominate Donald Trump again. Here’s what to expect
- Wisconsin election officials tell clerks best ways to operate absentee ballot drop boxes
- Family vows during funeral to push for charges after Black man pinned to ground outside Milwaukee hotel
- Melania Trump will attend the Republican convention in a rare political appearance, AP sources say
Case Digests
- Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes
- Separation of Powers- Legislative Oversight of Executive Actions
- Notice of Recommitment and Involuntary Medication Hearings
- Firearm Possession-Sufficiency of Evidence
- Motion for Substitute Counsel
- Jury Instructions
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- Fourth and 14th Amendment Rights-Parental Medical Neglect
- Eminent Domain
- Intrusion Upon Seclusion Claim-§1983 claim
- Employment Law- Title VII
- Employment Law
