A conservative legal group has sued Wisconsin's education department, saying it improperly withheld public records and illegally told school districts not to immediately release documents.

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A judge scheduled an emergency hearing Tuesday following a late-night request from the Wisconsin Department of Justice to delay an order requiring Gov. Scott Walker to call special elections for a pair of vacant legislative seats.

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The Court of Appeals rejected Planned Parenthood’s bid for declaratory judgment on the construction of two abortion statutes, and in the process damaged the idea of justiciability.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel must make public a pair of law enforcement training videos he made before being elected and that Democrats say show him making inappropriate comments, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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A Dane County judge has refused to reissue a restraining order against a frequent University of Wisconsin System protester.

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A Madison attorney who the Office of Lawyer Regulation says charged excessive fees to a client and continuously failed to provide an invoice is facing a 60-day suspension of her law license.

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A judge on Monday decided against releasing videos of Republican attorney general hopeful Brad Schimel speaking at training seminars while the judge's earlier decision ordering them to be made public is appealed.

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The Department of Justice will appeal a decision by a Dane County judge to make public training videos featuring Republican attorney general candidate Brad Schimel.

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A Dane County judge has ruled that videos of attorney general candidate Brad Schimel speaking at prosecutor’s conferences are public records and should be released.

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A former Wisconsin Judicial Commission member has filed a complaint against a Dane County judge for recusing himself from a voter ID case after the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the law.

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Wisconsin Democrats have filed a lawsuit seeking videos of prosecutor training sessions involving Republican attorney general candidate Brad Schimel, saying they think the footage might show Schimel made inappropriate remarks at the seminars.

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Lawyers for the Madison School District and the teachers union want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the validity of recently agreed-upon labor contracts.

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Another day, another judge who criticizes and sanctions Rodney Rigsby for his litigious nature.

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A Dane County circuit court judge ruled Thursday that doctors do not have to be present when a woman takes drugs prescribed for a medical abortion, a decision that allows the practice to continue in Wisconsin.

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Serial pro se litigant Rodney Rigsby is still at it.

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A Greenfield attorney and investment advisor, who is under federal investigation for potential wire and mail fraud, may lose her law license in Wisconsin.

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A state attorney urged a judge Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to void statutes that require doctors to decide if a woman is consenting voluntarily to an abortion and to be present when the woman gets abortion-inducing drugs.

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The number of civil jury trials is hitting an all-time low in Wisconsin's capital.

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Many of the biggest battles over hotly contested Republican-backed legislation in recent years have been fought a block away from the state Capitol at the Dane County Courthouse.

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A proposed state Supreme Court rule change aims to give judges guidance on how to handle the increasing number of people who enter the civil court system without a lawyer.

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A Lansing, Mich.-based company that allegedly tried to defraud thousands of corporations settled for $340,000 Wednesday in a case brought by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

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A Wisconsin law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls is constitutional, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in a decision offering hope for Republicans working to reinstate the mandate.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Madison judge's ruling striking down the state's voter identification law.

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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to overturn rulings blocking the state's voter identification law from being in effect for the November presidential election.

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A second judge on Tuesday declared Wisconsin's voter identification law unconstitutional, further guaranteeing that the ID requirement won't be in place for this fall's elections.

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An attorney challenging Wisconsin's new requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls called it "onerous and unreasonable burden" during opening statements in a trial Monday over the law's constitutionality.

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Wisconsin's Department of Justice is appealing a judge's ruling blocking the state's voter photo identification law.

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A Wisconsin judge has refused to lift his permanent injunction of the state's voter photo identification law.

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Pure objectivity is a myth. In that respect, Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan did nothing wrong when he signed a petition in November to recall Gov. Scott Walker and then, in March, granted a temporary injunction to stop the law that requires every voter show a photo ID before casting a ballot.

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Recall elections targeting four Republican state senators and likely Gov. Scott Walker and his lieutenant governor are scheduled to begin on May 8 under a deal approved Wednesday by a Wisconsin judge.

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