The Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association will be honoring several members of the legal community at its annual meeting.

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit state attorneys filed this summer seeking a declaration that screening food stamp recipients for drugs is legal.

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A federal judge has sentenced a Greenfield-based lawyer to four years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for stealing millions from clients.

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A Greenfield attorney who allegedly defrauded four clients out of $2.2 million has pleaded guilty to five of the charges made against her.

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A federal judge has ordered state election officials to post links to decisions striking down swaths of Wisconsin's campaign finance laws on its website.

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A pregnant Wisconsin woman said Thursday she plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging the state's fetal protection law after she was jailed for refusing treatment for drugs.

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The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Pamela Pepper to be a new Eastern District of Wisconsin judge.

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A Milwaukee federal judge has denied a pharmacy services company's attempt to dismiss parts of a lawsuit alleging that it violated federal laws by dispensing narcotics without a doctor's approval.

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An insider trading case against a former Heartland Advisors executive has been dismissed.

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A Dodge County inmate has been indicted for allegedly mailing threatening letters to a state and federal judge.

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Andrew DeClercq of Boardman & Clark LLP received the Individual Attorney Pro Bono Award at the Dane County Bar Association’s annual Pro Bono Breakfast on May 1.

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Pamela Pepper has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be a federal judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

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Two Milwaukee judges and one attorney have been recommended to the White House to fill a vacant seat in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

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The Wisconsin State Bar-appointed Federal Nominating Commission is now accepting applications for a vacant judge seat in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

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Milwaukee County is continuing its campaign to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pay real estate transfer taxes.

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Milwaukee County’s appeal of a federal judge’s decision to dismiss its lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be consolidated with three Illinois cases.

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An Orthodox Jewish couple from Milwaukee who has been investigated multiple times on allegations of child abuse is suing local prosecutors and child-welfare investigators for what they see as wrongdoing in court and investigation proceedings.

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Milwaukee County’s appeal of a federal decision that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not liable for unpaid taxes could be consolidated with three other cases.

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Milwaukee County’s attorneys filed an appeal Tuesday over a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit over whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are liable for transfer taxes.

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A Chinese researcher was sentenced Tuesday to time served plus two years of probation on charges stemming from the theft of a cancer research drug from a Wisconsin medical school.

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A federal judge dismissed Milwaukee County’s lawsuit to recoup an estimated $1 million it claimed to be owed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in unpaid real estate transfer taxes.

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking a judge’s approval to become a defendant in Milwaukee County’s federal lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency has until July 8 to petition to be added as a defendant in Milwaukee County’s lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Tensions between the Social Security Administration and the judicial community boiled over recently, as evidenced in a terse decision issued by Eastern District of Wisconsin Judge J.P. Stadtmueller.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A prominent Milwaukee neurosurgeon was convicted on tax charges for failing to disclose offshore bank accounts, prosecutors announced Thursday. Dr. Arvind Ahuja was found guilty late Wednesday in U.S. District Court of Milwaukee of one count of ...

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A woman who built a mansion and bought a Jaguar while collecting roughly $3 million in taxpayer subsidies from her Milwaukee child care centers has pleaded guilty to fraud, theft and conspiracy.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday unanimously dismissed a case challenging campaign rules that require financial disclosure from groups running issue ads for or against candidates.

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Four of the five Article III judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be eligible for senior status by fall 2012.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling striking down a Wisconsin law banning publicly funded hormone therapy for transgender inmates, saying denying the treatment amounted to torture. The ...

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SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin building products manufacturer has agreed to pay more than $22,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee who says she was sexually harassed at the company’s Christmas party. The U.S. ...

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