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Rowdy Celtics fans smash legal services windows
A Boston legal services group paid the price for the celebrations of rowdy Celtics fans, who got out of hand after the hometown team took its first championship title since 1986. Video shot during the celebration that got out of hand shows three street signs being tossed through the front windows of Greater Boston Legal […]
Supreme Court decision supports detainees’ right to habeas corpus
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the Bush administration in its handling of detainees at Guantanamo. In yesterday’s 5-4 decision, the majority determined the detainees have a constitutional right to habeas corpus. Justice Anthony Kennedy who authored the majority decision was the swing vote for that decision. Justice […]
Ziegler reprimand – too little or too much?
On May 28, the Wisconsin Supreme Court disciplined one of its own. The justices determined that Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler should be publicly reprimanded for presiding over 11 cases involving a bank where her husband sat on the board of directors while she was a circuit court judge. Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. dissented from […]
A Step Forward
During her inaugural address, Diane Diel made the surprising revelation that one of her goals involved promoting discussion about the mandatory nature of the State Bar of Wisconsin. That’s a wise move on her part. The best thing that could happen is for attorneys in Wisconsin to have an open discussion about whether it’s better […]
Scalia advocates a “dead” U.S. Constitution
During a recent interview on National Public Radio, Justice Antonin Scalia explained his view that the U.S. Constitution is “dead” and should be treated as if it were. It should be viewed as it was by our forefathers in 1791. Any attempt to interpret for today opens the door for individual justices to insert their […]
Attempt to collect on Civil War-era loan pushes the limit
How long is too long to file a lawsuit? If you wait 147 years to file a lawsuit, you have blown any reasonable statute of limitations out of the water. Haven’t you? A 77-year-old Tampa woman is trying to collect on a loan one of her ancestors provided to the city during the Civil War. […]
Correcting our error
In the Milwaukee Bar Association Judicial Poll chart listed on our March 24 Around the State page, the Qualified and Not Qualified headings accidentally appeared in the wrong order. That error reversed the results for candidates in the state Supreme Court race and the Milwaukee County Circuit Court – Branch 40 race. According to the […]
Butler wins in court of Milwaukee lawyers
It should come as no surprise that Justice Louis Butler, a former Milwaukee judge, would fare better than his Burnett County challenger, Michael Gableman, when reviewed by Milwaukee lawyers. What is surprising is the margin by which Butler was identified as “qualified,” compared with Gableman in the Milwaukee Bar Association’s Judicial Poll, released this afternoon. […]
Campaign numbers confusion
Wisconsin Law Journal phones started ringing yesterday as fact-finders began trying to sort out the numbers floating around Judge Michael J. Gableman’s record with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. For those of you who have been so focused on Packer playoffs and the future of Brett Favre that you’ve missed it, Gableman is the Burnett […]
Does sex assault law apply to necrophilia?
Was it sexual assault if the intended victim was already dead? The Wisconsin Supreme Court is taking up that issue Wednesday as it tries to decide whether a state statute criminalizing sex with a corpse applies when the defendants had nothing to do with the individual’s death. In 2006, three 20-year-old men dug up the […]
Supreme Court considers municipality's zoning authority
Can a municipality establish a zone in which every use requires a conditional use permit? The Wisconsin Supreme Court will consider that question during oral arguments Tuesday. The town of Rhine is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn a circuit court order invalidating a zoning ordinance, which did just that, according to court records. The […]
Feb. 13 hearing set for WCCA bill
On Wednesday, Feb. 13, the Assembly Corrections and Courts Committee will take up a bill that would limit access to court records through the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) Web site. State Rep. Robin Vos and Sen. Julie Lassa have developed Assembly Bill 754 that would remove the records of civil and criminal cases from […]
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