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Supreme Court avoids dispute over highway crosses
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would not hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution.
POMMER: ID, rules lawsuits face long odds
Teacher unions and the League of Women Voters have filed two quixotic lawsuits against laws developed this year by the Republican-controlled state government.
Justices to discuss weapons in court chambers
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin’s Supreme Court justices plan to discuss polices on concealed weapons in their state Capitol chambers next month. The state’s new concealed carry law goes into effect Tuesday. The statutes generally prohibit the public from bringing hidden weapons into courthouses, but allow judges and prosecutors to go armed. Gov. Scott Walker’s […]
TORT REPORT: Made-whole doctrine can be effectively disclaimed in policy
In Wisconsin, the made-whole doctrine has provided the insured with a legal right to pursue money from a tortfeasor to cover his or her losses.
5 states take Asian carp case to Supreme Court (UPDATE)
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Five states asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear their plea for quicker federal action to prevent Asian carp and other invasive species from moving between the Great Lakes and Mississippi river watersheds. Michigan Attorney Bill Schuette said he had filed a […]
GOP candidates would cut federal judges’ power
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Most of the Republican presidential candidates want to wipe away lifetime tenure for federal judges, cut the budgets of courts that displease them or allow Congress to override Supreme Court rulings on constitutional issues. Any one of those proposals would significantly undercut the independence and authority of […]
Scalia: Justices ‘don’t owe anybody anything’
The U.S. Supreme Court often weighs in on politicized subjects – this term alone the Court is likely to rule on cases involving the Obama administration’s health care law, Arizona’s immigration law and affirmative action policies at Texas and Michigan colleges. But Justice Antonin Scalia said the justices focus only on the law, not the politics.
Justice gone wild
I have been on high alert — not to mention haunted by a profound and growing sense of apprehension, anxiety, and outright fear — ever since I learned that a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice was accused this past summer of trying to throttle one of his colleagues who had disagreed with him during a meeting in which matters apparently went south really fast.
US Supreme Court takes up debate over immigration deportation rule
In a debate that involved dueling federal statutes and immigration case law, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a permanent resident may seek discretionary relief from removal based on a conviction where he did not depart and reenter the United States.
Judges, justices seek more guidance in civil appointment proposal
As cost concerns loom over a proposal to expand civil appointments in state, members of the judiciary this week also began to question how such appointments would be divvied up without a plan for how to assign cases.
State Supreme Court to take on four new cases
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept four new cases.
Appeals court denies challenge to rogue cop’s hiring (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The families of six young people gunned down by a rogue sheriff’s deputy in one of the most horrific mass shootings in Wisconsin history can’t challenge the county’s decision to hire him, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. Forest County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Peterson showed up […]
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- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
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- 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
