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Appeals court upholds Obama health care law
By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider this week whether to resolve conflicting rulings over the law’s requirement that all Americans buy health care insurance. A panel of the U.S. Court […]
Supreme Court dismisses voluntary State Bar proposal
For the second time in less than a year, the Wisconsin Supreme Court shot down a proposal to create a voluntary State Bar.
U.S. Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of life terms for minors
A year after holding that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole in non-murder cases violates the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether imposing such a sentence on a juvenile for capital murder is unconstitutional.
Supreme Court revokes Wis. attorney’s license
A 59-page complaint from the Office of Lawyer Regulation, containing 34 counts of misconduct in violation of 14 different Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys, resulted in the revocation of Alexis Michael’s law license.
State Supreme Court suspends attorney’s license
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the law license of Waunakee attorney Ron Niesen for nine months for professional misconduct and abandonment of his practice.
Do defendants have a remedy for ineffective plea bargains?
Sometimes criminal defense attorneys mess up. But just what, if any, constitutional remedy is available to defendants when their attorneys are ineffective at the plea bargaining stage?
US Supreme Court takes on reliability of eyewitness IDs
Despite recent studies questioning the reliability of eyewitness testimony in criminal trials, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appear reluctant to provide special constitutional protections against such evidence, absent a claim that an identification was made under suggestive circumstances created by the police.
Is official who lied to grand jury immune from liability? U.S. Supreme Court to decide
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are set to decide whether a government official who gives perjured grand jury testimony against a defendant is entitled to absolute immunity.
High court considers ‘Bivens’ claims against private prison
At oral arguments on Tuesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical of a federal prisoner’s claim that he should be allowed to bring a Bivens action against private contractors who run the prison where he was housed.
US Supreme Court to decide ineffective assistance claim issue
In the second half of a U.S. Supreme Court ineffective assistance double-header, the justices considered whether a lawyer’s failure to inform his client of a plea deal gives the defendant a constitutional remedy after he is arrested again and convicted of an additional charge.
State Supreme Court sides with SPD on sanction issue
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals can’t brand an attorney a liar without giving the attorney a chance to challenge that label, according to a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision Tuesday.
First new Wal-Mart bias suit filed after Supreme Court ruling
The first of what promises to be many smaller-sized job discrimination class actions against Wal-Mart in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring a single massive class has been filed in California.
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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
