Federal law should not have been applied in determining what constituted “reasonable” attorney fees in a successful consumer class action against auto makers Volkswagen and Audi, the 1st Circuit has ruled in vacating a $30 million fee award.

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A prison nurse convicted of sexual assault after having sex with an inmate has lost her appeal.

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A boy who shot his best friend in the eye during a paintball game isn't liable for the injury, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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A Milwaukee heating and air conditioning company's insurance provider must defend the business against allegations it sent out an unsolicited "junk" fax in violation of federal law, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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A $17.5 million class settlement did not adequately protect the rights of all cell phone customers who had claims against Sprint for allegedly unlawful early termination fees, the 3rd Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.

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The state attorney general says he doesn't believe challenges to Wisconsin's voter identification law will be settled before the November election.

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A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the first regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the most significant decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants.

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The timber industry is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will maintain business as usual on controlling muddy water running off logging roads into salmon streams.

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A last-minute court injunction allowed a Wisconsin man to give away Bibles at the Twin Cities Pride Festival.

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that unions must give nonmembers an immediate chance to object to unexpected fee increases or special assessments that all workers are required to pay in closed-shop situations.

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A state appeals court says a prisoner doesn't deserve to have his sentence revisited because Republicans erased Wisconsin's early release program.

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Authorities have a right to search a felon's property for guns, even though they have no cause or suspicion to do so, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled.

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A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a rule that allows nuclear power plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after a plant shuts down.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday voted to accept four new cases, and also acted to deny review in a number of cases.

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An ad hoc committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Appellate Practice Section has developed a checklist to assist lawyers and litigants in writing and filing briefs with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.

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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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Federal employment discrimination law does not provide a remedy for a bank employee who claims she was fired because of her marriage to a Mexican citizen who had entered the U.S. illegally, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.

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Pharmaceutical companies did not violate federal wage and hour law by classifying their sales representatives as administrative employees ineligible for overtime, the 7th Circuit has ruled.

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Failure to file a timely challenge could cost the city of Kaukauna its right to provide sewer service to 89 acres of land in the town of Harrison, according to a Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision issued Tuesday.

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A judge has put a hold on the sexual assault case against Wisconsin billionaire Curt Johnson.

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The Supreme Court won't consider reinstating a Wisconsin law banning publicly funded hormone therapy for inmates who identify as transgender women.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a homeless sex offender should not have been convicted of failing to report his address, arguing that he made efforts to find a home and that other monitoring procedures were available.

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The state Supreme Court has reinstated an accounting firm's lawsuit alleging telecommunications companies inserted unauthorized charges its bills.

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A Wisconsin Dells resort cannot sue a Madison-based contractor for moisture damages resulting from a water park project built more than 10 years ago, according to a Court of Appeals ruling Thursday.

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Some of you may recall my article a few years back entitled “What About Roberta?” about transgenderism in the workplace. In that piece, we followed “Bob,” a long-term employee who came into an office seeking support as he went through the process of transitioning from male to female.

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For the first time since enactment of sec.801.54(2), governing which court should hear a case when both state and tribal courts have jurisdiction, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will interpret the new rule.

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A $52 million federal jury verdict won by a small Middleton firm is the largest patent infringement award in the history of the Western District and could triple in coming weeks.

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In Milwaukee County’s two contested circuit court races, two candidates are narrowly ahead in the eyes of Milwaukee Bar members.

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Condominium purchasers may have waited too long to exercise their right to rescind their contract pursuant to federal law requiring certain disclosures in land sales, the 6th Circuit has ruled.

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A Wisconsin-based citizens group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging the annexation of a business park.

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