A federal judge in Wisconsin sentenced a Minnesota man on Friday to two years in prison for aiming a laser at a Delta Air Lines jet in 2021, an act that prosecutors said disrupted the pilots' efforts to land and putting passengers in "incredible danger."
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Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan
A federal judge has ordered energy company Enbridge Inc. and an American Indian tribe to come up with an emergency plan to prevent potential spills from an aging oil pipeline running across the tribe's reservation.
Read More »Marketing agency owner to pay $2.4M in restitution for kickback scheme
An Illinois man has been sentenced to one year in federal prison followed by six months of home confinement and 36 months of supervised release in addition to paying $2,458,275 in restitution to Mercyhealth for wire fraud.
Read More »Utilities appeal ruling blocking line’s refuge crossing
Developers of $492 million transmission line are appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocks the project's crossing through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge.
Read More »Former Columbus mayor pleads guilty to bank fraud
The former mayor of Columbus has pleaded guilty to bank fraud charges in federal court.
Read More »Court blocks extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline
A federal appeals court blocked a decision on Thursday to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin, in a win for Republicans who have fought attempts to make voting easier throughout the country.
Read More »Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension
A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin's presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state.
Read More »Judge unsure if virus requires changes to Wisconsin election
A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether it would be right to order an easing of Wisconsin's absentee voting regulations ahead of the November presidential election, saying the coronavirus might pose less of a threat to in-person voting by then.
Read More »GOP Twitter block will cost Wisconsin taxpayers $200,000
Wisconsin taxpayers will pay a liberal group's attorneys $200,000 because Republican lawmakers blocked them on Twitter.
Read More »Judge: Anheuser-Busch must pull some ads about MillerCoors
A Wisconsin judge has ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop suggesting in advertising that MillerCoors' light beers contain corn syrup, wading into a fight between two beer giants that are losing market share to small independent brewers.
Read More »Judge denies Republicans’ attempt to join abortion lawsuit
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Wisconsin Republican lawmakers' attempt to intervene in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging the state's abortion restrictions, saying in a strongly worded order that they presented no evidence that the Democratic attorney general wouldn't adequately defend the laws.
Read More »Woman gets 3 years for sending meth to Red Cliff reservation
A judge has sentenced a California woman to three years in prison for shipping methamphetamine to the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's reservation in northern Wisconsin.
Read More »Judge: GOP can’t block liberal group’s Twitter comments
A federal judge says top Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature violated the First Amendment when they blocked a liberal-advocacy group from seeing their Twitter feeds.
Read More »Man who stole guns, wrote manifesto sentenced to 14 years
A Wisconsin man who stole a cache of firearms from a gun shop and sent a rambling anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
Read More »Judge orders Spectrum Brands to pay $1.9M in civil penalties
A Wisconsin-based consumer products company has been ordered to pay $1.9 million in civil penalties for waiting to report a defect in coffee carafes that resulted in injuries to nearly 70 people, and for continuing to sell the carafes even after they were recalled.
Read More »Jury convicts man in weapons, manhunt case (UPDATE)
Jurors have convicted a man accused of stealing an arsenal of firearms from a southern Wisconsin gun shop and sending an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump.
Read More »Federal court says ex-lawyer waited too long to appeal order to pay OLR
A federal appeals court has ruled that a district court judge got it right when he refused to let a former La Crosse lawyer appeal a bankruptcy judge’s order to pay for his disciplinary hearing.
Read More »Trump expedites visas for family of Syrian in Wisconsin
President Donald Trump's administration says it's expediting a Syrian man's applications to bring his wife and daughter to Wisconsin in the face of a federal lawsuit.
Read More »Trump administration fights Syrian’s travel ban lawsuit
A federal judge should let President Donald Trump's travel ban apply to a Syrian family trying to relocate to Wisconsin, U.S. Justice Department attorneys argue in a new court filing.
Read More »Federal judge dismisses Walker-related John Doe lawsuit
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against investigators and former state officials involved in a now-halted secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign.
Read More »Judge exempts Syrian family from Trump ban
A Syrian refugee trying to bring his family to Wisconsin renewed his challenge of President Donald Trump's travel ban in federal court Friday, arguing the new order is clearly anti-Muslim and just as illegal as the president's first travel ban.
Read More »BENCH BLOG: Supreme Court has wrong say on pro se
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently rebuked the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a 2010 opinion upholding a Waukesha County judge’s cursory denial of a defendant’s right to self-representation.
Read More »Federal judge sentences 7th defendant over heroin charge
A federal judge has sentenced a seventh person for heroin charges stemming from a single drug-trafficking investigation.
Read More »Jury awards software company nearly $1 billion in damages
A federal jury in Wisconsin has awarded health care software firm Epic nearly $1 billion in damages in its lawsuit against an Indian firm it had accused of stealing trade secrets.
Read More »Arbitration over State Bar dues underway after initial sputter
Despite a delay over the choice of an arbitrator, a dispute over mandatory State Bar dues is heading toward arbitration, with response briefs due Jan. 22.
Read More »Wisconsin jury says Apple owes $234 million in patent case
A jury awarded the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation more than $234 million Friday in a patent infringement lawsuit against computer maker Apple Inc.
Read More »Madison felon sentenced to 15 years in prison
A Madison man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing firearms as a felon.
Read More »Judge sentences former Sun Prairie IT director to prison
A federal judge has sentenced Sun Prairie's former information technology director to two years in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from the city to build computers he sold online.
Read More »Federal judge rules ban on overpass signs legal (UPDATE)
A western Wisconsin town can ban signs on an interstate overpass, a federal judge ruled in rejecting tea party claims that the prohibition sparked by the group's demonstrations was unconstitutional.
Read More »Appeals court: Navajo inmate can wear headband, eat venison (UPDATE)
A Navajo Indian imprisoned in Wisconsin can wear a headband in his cell and celebrate a tribal feast with wild venison, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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