The state Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear a lawsuit Republican legislators filed last year alleging Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul wasn't complying with laws passed during a 2018 lame-duck legislative session.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided to allow courts to resume in-person hearings and jury trials if they can come up with plans to protect participants and observers from the coronavirus. The justices suspended in-person hearings ...
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices filed seven separate opinions in their decision on Wednesday striking down the state's extended stay-at-home order.
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Read More »Wisconsin is the only state in the U.S. with an April election proceeding as planned, the result of an order the state Supreme Court issued on Monday.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has extended changes to its appellate court operations through May 22.
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Read More »A fractured opinion from the Wisconsin Supreme Court criticizes the lower courts' lack of detail in an appeal over a Marathon County man's involuntary commitment to a mental institution.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court disagreed on invoking laches in an appeal case that concerns a defendant's rights in a 2007 homicide conviction. Last week, a 4-3 majority upheld imposing laches in the case, prompting the responses "Really?" in one of the arguments.
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In a 4-3 decision announced Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the possibility of having a new trial in a decade-old double homicide case — a request made because of missing transcripts. In upholding an appellate court's previous decision, the majority concluded the defendant could not prevail without make a facially valid claim of arguably prejudicial error, no matter if all or part of a transcript is on hand.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided to end the court's long-standing three-tier system for deferring to state agencies' interpretations of statutes.
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Overturning two lower court rulings, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck a blow for government secrecy.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates and outside groups spent at least $4.3 million ahead of Tuesday's election.
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Read More »Powered by a surge in Republican turnout for the state's presidential primary, Rebecca Bradley pushed past heaps of negative publicity over her inflammatory college writings to defeat JoAnne Kloppenburg and win a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Rebecca Bradley defeated JoAnne Kloppenburg on Tuesday to win a 10-year term on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, shrugging off headlines about her inflammatory writings and riding a wave of Republican turnout for the state's presidential primary to victory.
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Although most attention is now on the contested races in Wisconsin's presidential primary, voters who head to the polls Tuesday will also have their say in various judicial races.
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Read More »The National Rifle Association is endorsing Justice Rebecca Bradley as she engages in a hotly contested fight for a 10-year spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has raised nearly $480,000 in the past two months, about $100,000 more than Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg in their race for a 10-year term on the high court.
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Read More »The Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin is throwing its support behind state Supreme Court incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley, whose seat is being challenged by Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg in the April 5 election.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley is striving to solidify her place on the high court in the April 5 election, while Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is trying to break through in her second attempt for the seat.
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The first time JoAnne Kloppenburg ran for Wisconsin Supreme Court, much of the focus was on Gov. Scott Walker as the race came in the middle of protests against his union-busting law.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley isn't saying whether she would recuse herself from an abortion case in light of comments she made as a college student equating abortion to the Holocaust.
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Read More »A survey shows Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg ahead of incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley – at least among Milwaukee lawyers.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court hopeful JoAnne Kloppenburg says Justice Rebecca Bradley's resume is thin and she owes her judicial career to political connections.
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The Latino-Jewish Alliance has announced that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley won't attend a forum with opponent JoAnne Kloppenburg later this month.
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Wisconsin's state Supreme Court candidates sparred over judicial philosophy and political ties in a debate Friday night, trading familiar jabs in the increasingly heated race for a full 10-year term on the court.
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Read More »The two Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates are facing off again in a debate with less than three weeks to go before the election.
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Wisconsin's state Supreme Court candidates went after each other in a debate Tuesday evening that took a far sharper tone than previous encounters, even as they battled over familiar territory of judicial philosophy, negative headlines and political independence.
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While the attention will be on the presidential competitions, there will be an equally important contest on the April 5 ballot. Voting for a place on the state Supreme Court will determine whether Wisconsin's historic commitment to judicial independence and integrity will be renewed.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has gone from embarrassed to apologetic to angry as opponents dredged up opinion pieces from her college days railing against homosexual AIDS victims, Bill Clinton supporters and abortion.
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Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had a romantic relationship with a former co-worker and went on to represent the man in a child custody case, prompting the man's ex-wife to try to remove her for alleged conflict of interest, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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