Wis. court upholds search of felon’s property
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.
State’s high court takes on four new cases
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday voted to accept four new cases, and also acted to deny review in a number of cases.
Atheist faces new setback in suit over Ill. cross
An atheist said Friday he may take his legal fight over state funds used to renovate a towering southern Illinois cross to the U.S. Supreme Court now that his latest federal appeal has failed.
Gay marriage case one step away from US Supreme Court’s door
The decision paves the way for the case, which has been winding its way through the federal courts, to be heard by the Supreme Court as early as next year.
THE DARK SIDE: Citation to unpublished opinions is like crying Wolff
I recently received a very nice letter from Chief Justice Abrahamson, thanking me for my service on the Supreme Court’s committee to study citation to unpublished opinions.
US Supreme Court: Bank can credit-bid at bankruptcy auction
Chapter 11 cramdown plans that provide for the sale of debtor’s collateral free and clear of a bank’s lien must allow the bank to credit-bid at the sale, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
Supreme Court ruling could reshape children’s benefits cases
As the use of assisted reproductive technologies continues to increase, a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling has family and estate planning attorneys warning their clients of unforeseen consequences from decades-old federal and state laws governing children’s benefits.
THE DARK SIDE: On ‘filled milk’ and the Beatles
A conversation occurs whenever an argument breaks out over U.S. v. Carolene Products, 304 U.S. 144 (1938), which deals with unconscionably upholding the criminalization of shipping filled milk across a state line.
7th Circuit: Employee can’t sue for anti-immigrant bias
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.
Supreme Court rules in Double Jeopardy case
An informal vote taken by jurors before deliberations conclude and later reported to a judge in court does not amount to an acquittal, and therefore a retrial does not violate a defendant’s Double Jeopardy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
US high court declines to hear music downloading case
A $675,000 jury verdict against a student who illegally downloaded 30 songs from the Internet was left standing by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to take the matter up.
‘In Chambers’ pulls back curtains at Supreme Court
A U.S. Supreme Court justice stands in his august chambers concentrating on his latest project while a law clerk looks on in admiration. Is the subject a petition for certiorari that seeks to upend decades of constitutional precedent? Hardly.
Legal News
- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies