Wisconsin circuit courts average 81% affirmance rate during pandemic
Wisconsin judges are coming out of a year unlike any other.
COURT GESTURES: When pro se goes bad, Part II
Remember that defendant I wrote about on Wednesday who was representing himself in his incest trial? Well, on Thursday he threatened to call the FBI on Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski.
COURT GESTURES: When pro se goes bad
See, this is why you don’t represent yourself in court.
COURT GESTURES: The ‘kiss of death’
I think I may have found the oddest entry ever put into a court record. And it’s in Milwaukee County.
COURT GESTURES: Location, location, location
Wait, where exactly did I move? I guess close enough to a place where a dead body was hidden by alleged prostitutes before being found several days later.
Senate leaders drop standoff on judges
Senate Republican and Democratic leaders ended their standoff Wednesday over President Barack Obama's judicial nominations and agreed to debate a small-business bill that both parties favor in this presidential and congressional election year.
Lawmakers, judges disagree on law degree legislation
Requiring municipal judges to possess a law degree would help avoid giving carte blanche to local law enforcement and city attorneys, a legislator said Thursday.
Scalia: Judges ‘ain’t what they used to be’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the quality of federal judges has suffered because there are too many of them. Scalia, testifying before a Senate committee Wednesday, also said Congress made a mistake by making federal crimes out of too many routine drug crimes. The new federal crimes created a need for […]
Bill proposing Supreme Court appointments to be introduced this week
Legislation calling for state Supreme Court justices to be appointed instead of elected could be introduced this week.
Year in Review 2010: Appeals/Supreme Court Charts
A look at how the circuit court judges fared in the Court of Appeals/Supreme Court in 2010.
Commentary: Judicial nominations – then and now
President Obama has appointed UW law professor Victoria Nourse to replace retiring Judge Terence Evans on the Seventh Circuit. Needless to say, it’s not a choice I would make. For me, the simple fact that she wrote an article in the California Law Review last year entitled “A Tale of Two Lochners,” in which she asserts that Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was incorrectly decided,[...]
Legal News
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
- Facing mostly white juries, are Milwaukee County defendants of color truly judged by their peers?
- Chicago man sentenced to prison after being caught with ‘Trump Gun’
- FTC bans non-competes
- Gov. Evers seeks applicants for Dane County Circuit Court
- Milwaukee man charged in dismemberment death pleads not guilty
- Democratic-led states lead ban on the book ban
- UW Madison Professor: America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees
- History made in Trump New York trial opening statements
- Prosecutor won’t bring charges against Wisconsin lawmaker over fundraising scheme
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