A judge improperly certified a lawsuit alleging that scores of Burger King managers across Wisconsin deserve overtime pay as a class action, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Wisconsin circuit courts average 81% affirmance rate during pandemic
Wisconsin judges are coming out of a year unlike any other.
Read More »Sufficiency of Evidence
Sarah Ann Wallk appeals an order finding her refusal to submit to an evidentiary chemical test of her blood unreasonable.
Read More »Breach of Contract
P.J. Commonwealth Assisted Living, LLC, (Commonwealth) appeals an order dismissing all three of its claims against 3M Resident Monitoring, Inc. (3M RM).
Read More »Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Arthur J. Fariole, pro se, appeals from a circuit court order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Read More »Court upholds firing of Milwaukee officer who punched woman (UPDATE)
A state Court of Appeals has ruled that a board had the authority to change its decision to suspend a Milwaukee police officer.
Read More »Court upholds conviction in Milwaukee crowd shooting
A state appeals court says a man accused of shooting into a Milwaukee street party was properly convicted.
Read More »Court upholds order against harassing abortion volunteer (UPDATE)
A Milwaukee judge properly issued a restraining order against an activist accused of harassing an abortion clinic volunteer, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Read More »Appeals court upholds Facebook defamation judgment
A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a judgment against a man accused of defaming a college lecturer on Facebook.
Read More »Court: Milwaukee residency requirement trumps state law
A court of appeals has upheld the city of Milwaukee’s residency requirement for city employees, striking down a state law passed in 2013.
Read More »Appeals court says judge properly dismissed Braun lawsuit (UPDATE)
A judge properly dismissed a lawsuit alleging Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun libeled a former friend who helped him fight allegations he abused steroids, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read More »Appeals court upholds conviction in triplet beating
A state appeals court has decided a Milwaukee man accused of severely harming his 2-month-old triplet daughters by twisting their legs and breaking their bones was properly convicted.
Read More »Appeals court upholds food stamp fraud conviction (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin appeals court on Tuesday upheld a 10-year prison sentence for a Milwaukee woman accused of defrauding the state's food stamp program.
Read More »Court upholds conviction against former Walker aide (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin appeals court has uphold a theft conviction against a former aide of Gov. Scott Walker when he was Milwaukee County executive.
Read More »Court upholds conviction of former Walker aide (UPDATE)
One of Gov. Scott Walker's former key Milwaukee aides was properly convicted of campaigning on taxpayers' time, a divided state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Read More »Appeals court: Judge drew wrong character conclusions (UPDATE)
An Ivory Coast immigrant deserves a new sentence in a series of Milwaukee robberies because the judge improperly drew conclusions about his character based on violence in his home country, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Read More »Officer who left scene not immune from lawsuit
An appeals court says a Milwaukee police officer who drove away from a man who was being chased isn't immune from a civil lawsuit.
Read More »Court upholds former airport official’s firing (UPDATE)
Milwaukee County officials properly forced a former airport deputy director out of his job because he was viewing pornography and using his work computer to set up dates, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Read More »Appeals court tosses homicide conviction (UPDATE)
A state appeals court ordered a new trial Tuesday for a Milwaukee man accused of shooting his parents.
Read More »Appeals court overturns Milwaukee homicide conviction (UPDATE)
A state appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Milwaukee homicide suspect.
Read More »Appeals court says asbestos case wrongly dismissed
A Wisconsin appeals court says a case brought on behalf of a worker who died as a result of asbestos exposure was wrongly dismissed.
Read More »Appeals court reverses homicide conviction
A Wisconsin appeals court has reversed a Milwaukee man's homicide conviction.
Read More »Court: Milwaukee police can’t bargain health costs (UPDATE)
Two Wisconsin appellate courts bolstered portions of Republicans' contentious collective bargaining restrictions Tuesday, ruling that Milwaukee police can't negotiate their own health care costs and that a county board legally required elected officials to pay more for their benefits.
Read More »Appeals court overturns sexual assault conviction
A Wisconsin state appeals court has overturned a sexual assault conviction against a man because it says the lower court should have allowed testimony about his relationship with the woman.
Read More »Wis. court upholds charging unknown suspect
A Wisconsin appeals court says prosecutors legally charged an unknown suspect using only DNA markers rather than a full profile.
Read More »Negligence lawsuit over train crash moves forward
A state appeals ruling means a negligence lawsuit against a railroad company in a 2009 train-van crash in a Milwaukee suburb can move forward.
Read More »Court rules in favor of Cannon & Dunphy in search-engine keyword suit (UPDATE)
A Milwaukee-area personal injury law firm that paid to use the names of a competing firm in Internet search engines to promote its own link did not violate privacy laws, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read More »Bus driver wins appeal in sexual assault case (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled in favor of a Milwaukee high school bus driver who argued a lower court failed to consider some evidence and unfairly used testimony in convicting him of sexually assaulting a student.
Read More »State Supreme Court denies new trial in 20-year-old robbery case (UPDATE)
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned an appeals court ruling that granted a new trial to a man convicted of robbing two Milwaukee grocery stores nearly 20 years ago.
Court grants new trial in sex assault case
A West Allis man accused of sexual assault will get a new trial.
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