A federal judge says the Ho-Chunk tribe can continue to offer electronic poker at its Madison casino.
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Read More »A federal judge says the Ho-Chunk tribe can continue to offer electronic poker at its Madison casino.
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Read More »A manufacturer that supplied turbines to the U.S. Navy may be immune from a former seaman’s asbestos claims, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice John L. Coffey died Saturday at the age of 90.
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Read More »The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment does not preclude a mandatory life sentence for dealers who possess a smaller quantity of crack cocaine than the quantity of powder cocaine necessary to trigger a similar sentence, the 7th Circuit has ruled.
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Read More »The duty to take more active anti-suicide measures arises only when the risk is imminent, the 7th Circuit has ruled, affirming summary judgment for state officials who treated a teenager who hung himself while in a youth detention facility.
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Read More »In an effort to root out employee abuse of Family and Medical Leave Act violations, employers are increasingly relying upon the “honest suspicion” defense – and winning.
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Read More »United Airline workers who lose their jobs due to disability are entitled reassignment to vacant positions for which they are qualified, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
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Read More »A court ruling that ordered Massachusetts to pay for an inmate's sex-change surgery is being seen as another milestone for transgender people.
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Read More »A Chrysler employee produced sufficient evidence of recklessness to justify a substantial award of punitive damages in a Title VII hostile environment case, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reinstating a $3.5 million jury verdict.
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Read More »An atheist said Friday he may take his legal fight over state funds used to renovate a towering southern Illinois cross to the U.S. Supreme Court now that his latest federal appeal has failed.
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Read More »Investors could not sue a medical device manufacturer for fraudulently downplaying the significance of one surgeon’s report that one of the company’s hip replacement parts had a high failure rate, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
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Read More »A convicted felon may get a new trial because his lawyers misread the Fourth Amendment implications of their client’s contention that a gun found on his person was planted by police.
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Read More »A debt collector may have violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when its automated dialing system contacted cell phone users with reassigned numbers, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
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Read More »Police used excessive force when they fired a baton launcher four times in order to arrest a nonviolent drunk driver who was mistakenly suspected of being a car thief, the 7th Circuit has ruled in reversing a defense verdict.
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Read More »Police officers who arrested a woman who exhibited symptoms of a mental health disorder in a safe location but released her into a dangerous neighborhood may be sued under §1983, the 7th Circuit has ruled.
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Read More »The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took up a complicated bankruptcy case Monday, parsing the language of the Bankruptcy Code to determine if a Chapter 11 debtor must give a secured creditor the right to credit bid items being sold at auction.
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Read More »A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings.
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that a failed script writer sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for flying $500,000 worth of marijuana to Wisconsin on his private plane should have been allowed to ...
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Read More »Despite evidence that the police withheld exculpatory evidence and witnesses were not truthful at trial, a state prisoner convicted in 1994 of sexual assault and attempted homicide will not get a new trial.
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A federal appeals court says two Wisconsin public high schools properly held graduation ceremonies in a church. Brookfield Central and Brookfield East held their graduations at Elmbrook Church for most of the last decade. A group ...
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Read More »One of the great advantages I have gained from my twitter account is a vast amount of information about juries, jury issues and jury problems.
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Read More »If a criminal defense attorney uses his peremptory challenges to exclude potential jurors because of race or gender, he violates the Equal Protection Clause, the Rules of Professional Responsibility and provides ineffective assistance of counsel.
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Read More »The 7th Circuit has issued standards that a defendant charged with illegal reentry must meet to be considered for a lower sentence based on the lack of a fast-track program.
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Read More »The government can deny a defendant his counsel of choice, merely by asserting its intent to call his attorney as a witness.
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Read More »“All crack is cocaine base but not all cocaine base is crack,” Judge Diane S. Sykes noted in U.S. v. Edwards, 397 F.3d 570 (7th Cir. 2005).
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Read More »Under 7th Circuit precedent, federal courts in Wisconsin are bound to apply the old mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine offenses occurring before the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 went into effect.
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Read More »It has come to my attention that the nomination of University of Wisconsin law professor Victoria Nourse to the 7th Circuit is unlikely to be approved by the U.S. Senate.
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Read More »Arguably, any 18-year-old in Wisconsin who uses the Internet to arrange a consensual sexual encounter with a 17-year-old faces 10 years to life in federal prison.
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Read More »An April 1 opinion from the 7th Circuit creates a conundrum for state courts when criminal defense attorneys fail to follow the rules for submitting evidence the alleged victim in a sexual assault case has made false allegations before.
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Read More »An April 1 opinion from the 7th Circuit creates a conundrum for state courts when criminal defense attorneys fail to follow the rules for submitting evidence the alleged victim in a sexual assault case has made false allegations before.
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