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An appeals court has upheld the conviction of an Ozaukee County mother who sat by while her husband sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter.
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Read More »Court: Judge properly tossed gay couple’s parental request (UPDATE)
A judge properly dismissed a same-sex couple's request for a declaration that one of them is the legal parent of the other's child, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »Appeals court says Schimel must release training videos (UPDATE)
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel must make public a pair of law enforcement training videos he made before being elected and that Democrats say show him making inappropriate comments, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »Appeals court invalidates portion of DNA surcharge (UPDATE)
An appeals court invalidated a section of state law Wednesday that requires judges to impose a a DNA surcharge on misdemeanor convictions without submitting an actual sample, a ruling that could affect potentially thousands of criminals caught up in a wrinkle of budgetary timing.
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Read More »Court: Man illegally taped encounter with naked prostitute (UPDATE)
An appeals court says a man was properly convicted of videotaping a sexual encounter with a naked prostitute.
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Read More »Court: Debt settlement company must give up $4.2M in fees
A state appeals court says a hearing examiner properly ordered a debt settlement company to give up $4.2 million in fees and pay nearly $2 million in forfeitures because it was operating without a license.
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Read More »Judge won’t release Schimel tapes before election (UPDATE)
A judge on Monday decided against releasing videos of Republican attorney general hopeful Brad Schimel speaking at training seminars while the judge's earlier decision ordering them to be made public is appealed.
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Read More »Appeals court reinstates Neenah teachers’ lawsuit
A Wisconsin appeals court judge has reinstated a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 250 Neenah teachers seeking to recover more than $61 million in post-retirement benefits.
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Read More »Sheboygan Wal-Mart shooter loses appeal
A Sheboygan man convicted of fatally shooting a man outside of a Wal-Mart store has lost his appeal.
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Read More »Appeals court finds warrantless GPS tracking OK
A state appeals court says Wisconsin police were within their rights to place GPS trackers on cars before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they need warrants.
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Read More »State’s slashing of early release options violated ex post facto law prohibition
Prohibitions against ex post facto laws are supposed to protect defendants from changes in the laws that increase punishment after a crime has been committed or sentencing has occurred, according to pro se defendant Aman D. Singh.
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Read More »Court reverses interlocking homicide convictions
A state appeals court has ordered new trials for two men convicted in a Kenosha homicide five years ago.
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Read More »State Supreme Court to hear voter ID arguments
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a pair of lawsuits challenging the state's voter photo identification law.
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Read More »Justices to hear voter ID cases next month
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in two cases challenging the state's voter photo identification law for next month.
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Read More »Appeals court: Manure isn’t pollutant under policy
A Wisconsin appeals court says manure isn't a pollutant as defined in an insurance policy.
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Read More »Former state Sen. Hopper wins drunken driving appeal
Former state Sen. Randy Hopper has won a case in state appeals court related to his 2011 arrest for drunken driving.
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Read More »State Supreme Court to hear voter ID cases (UPDATE)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday it will hear arguments in two separate lawsuits challenging the state's requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls, after saying three times previously it would not take up the issue.
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Read More »Court rejects parent killer’s appeal
A state appeals court says a Mequon man was properly convicted of killing his parents at the family home in 2011.
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Read More »Unwrapping Wisconsin’s difficult land-use code
The Court of Appeals has peeled a layer off Wisconsin’s thick and smelly land-use onion.
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Read More »Lawmaker behind voter ID announces resignation
A Republican lawmaker from southwestern Wisconsin has decided to resign.
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Read More »Appeals court: No damages in officer death
A Wisconsin appeals court says a slain police officer's widow can't collect damages from the insurance company that covered his killer.
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Read More »Appeals court upholds sex offender’s sentence
A Wisconsin appeals court says a circuit court judge acted correctly in sending a registered sex offender to prison after he violated his probation in another case by visiting a bar where his sexual assault victim worked.
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Read More »Court: Ex-patient can sue doctor for negligence
A Wisconsin appeals court says a former patient involved in a business dispute with his psychiatrist can pursue claims that the doctor acted negligently.
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Read More »Court: Sex assault statements inadmissible
A state appeals court says a West Bend man's statements about sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl should have been suppressed.
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Read More »Court finds in favor of woman denied minimum wage (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled in favor of a former manager of an Italian restaurant who said the company did not pay her the required minimum wage.
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Read More »Parents ask state high court to take mascot case (UPDATE)
Two parents asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to strike down a law that allows the state schools superintendent to order schools to drop American Indian mascots, arguing the statutes are unconstitutional.
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Read More »Appeals court rules couple can’t collect in birth control mix-up (UPDATE)
A clinic that mistakenly gave vitamins instead of birth-control pills to a West Bend woman doesn't have to pay to raise the child she conceived but can be sued for other financial damages, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »Appeals court denies new trial for Dassey
A state appeals court has rejected Brendan Dassey's request for a new trial on charges that he helped kill a young woman in 2005 in one of Wisconsin's most notorious crimes.
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Read More »Appellate court rules insurer had duty to defend
Key website source code and proprietary computer systems that took years to create are at the heart of an insurance coverage decision recently handed down by the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Air Engineering Inc. v. Industrial Air Power LLC et al., 2012 AP 103.
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Read More »High court kicks voter ID to appellate level
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Madison judge's ruling striking down the state's voter identification law.
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