By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge on Wednesday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and MasterCard and Visa that requires the card processing networks to allow retailers to offer discounts or ...

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By DANIEL WAGNER AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $211 million after admitting one of its divisions rigged dozens of bidding competitions to win business from state and local governments. J.P. Morgan ...

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two unions representing about 2,700 public workers in Madison and Dane County have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s new law restricting collective bargaining rights. The lawsuit, filed ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it is suing the nation’s largest mortgage insurance company and two of its underwriters alleging discrimination against women on paid maternity leave. Officials said the suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Pittsburgh ...

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PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixteen Democratic senators want the Justice Department to look into whether voting rights are being jeopardized in states that require photo identification in order for people to vote. The lawmakers wrote Attorney ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney representing three Democratic state senators targeted for recalls does not support combining their lawsuit against the Government Accountability Board with lawsuits filed by six Republican senators. A motion was filed Tuesday by the state ...

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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state employees will start paying more for their health care and pension benefits in late August, state officials said Wednesday as a coalition of unions filed a new lawsuit against ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to immediately vacate a Madison judge’s decision striking down Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious collective bargaining law. Judge Maryann Sumi invalidated the ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious collective bargaining law. Democratic Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne alleges Republican lawmakers violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law during debate on ...

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MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Switzerland’s biggest bank UBS AG has agreed to pay $160 million to settle charges that it rigged the bidding process for investment contracts with cities and towns in 24 states and ...

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday it would hear arguments in June over whether a judge had the authority to block implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal taking away collective bargaining ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has asked attorneys for reasons why it should take up a lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive collective bargaining plan. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne has filed a lawsuit alleging Republican ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Justice Department improperly demoted a top Internet detective after she questioned a plan to send state agents to guard Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen at the national Republican convention nearly three years ago, a ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ordered a Milwaukee company to pay $385,000 for marketing unauthorized identification to Hispanics. The state Justice Department filed a complaint against Credenciales USA LLC and its owner, Hugo Loyo, in December. The agency ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says statements a Whitefish Bay man made to police after he had retained an attorney are inadmissible in court. Brad Forbush is fighting sexual assault and false imprisonment charges in Sheboygan County. ...

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Madison - A Republican lawmaker on Thursday called on a state Justice Department lawyer to resign for sending an e-mail offering legal advice to Democratic state senators after they fled the state in February.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Justice Department released 150 pages of documents Friday that shed new light on prosecutors’ findings that a former Calumet County district attorney repeatedly displayed sexually suggestive behavior at the office, but that it wasn’t ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Madison, Wis. (AP) — Having declared that Wisconsin’s divisive union law isn’t really a law yet, a judge was set to return to one of the underlying questions dogging the measure — whether Republicans violated ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The nation’s largest dairy company has settled an antitrust lawsuit by agreeing to sell a Wisconsin milk processing plant. The Justice Department filed the lawsuit against Dean Foods Co. last year in concert with attorneys general from ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state Justice Department attorney tells a judge a district attorney hasn’t properly brought a lawsuit challenging the state’s contentious collective bargaining law. Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi called a hearing Tuesday to weigh District ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge weighed arguments Tuesday about whether an order she issued intended to temporarily block the state’s divisive new collective bargaining law was still in place, or whether Republican leaders ...

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TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former prosecutor who sent racy text messages to a domestic abuse victim will not face criminal charges over misconduct and sexual assault allegations levied by more than a dozen women, ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two public union chapters have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s contentious new collective bargaining law. Union chapters representing Madison public works employees and Dane County firefighters contend the law’s impairs unions’ ability to sustain themselves ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor says it would be premature for an appeals court to review whether an emergency order blocking publication of the state’s new collective bargaining law was properly issued. Democratic Dane County District Attorney Ismael ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor says a judge properly blocked publication of a contentious new collective bargaining law. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne has accused Republican lawmakers of violating the state’s open meetings law during debate on ...

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