Both utilities and roadbuilders supported the bill seeking to have the Wisconsin Department of Transportation compensate contractors who run into delays during transportation projects.
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Plain meaning or ’causes confusion’: Supreme Court disagrees on DOT property damage case
Although the majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed a Kenosha company didn't have a claim against the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for property damage in a recent decision, the three dissenting justices said the majority's opinion is going to cause confusion throughout the court system.
Read More »Supreme Court: DOT driving record sufficient proof of man’s decades-old OWI conviction
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a Department of Transportation driving record can serve as sufficient proof of a man's decades-old OWI conviction.
Read More »Supreme Court hears another case about DOT property damage
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering its second case of the week involving property damage allegedly caused by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation project.
Read More »Wisconsin drunken-driving convictions, related offenses down
Yearly convictions for drunken driving and other related offenses dropped by nearly 18,000 in Wisconsin between 2004 and 2018, according to a report from the state Legislative Reference Bureau.
Read More »Statute, clogged drain tile leave Big Bend tradesmen’s land submersed
William Ludwig and Brad Antoniewski recently became the unwilling owners of “lakefront” property.
Read More »I-94 work sparks lawsuit
A Milwaukee resident is claiming more than $50,000 in damage to his home as a result of nearby construction on Interstate 94.
Read More »State Supreme Court sides with advertising co. in eminent domain case (UPDATE)
When the state cut Nels Naslund and his partners a $1.9 million check for a chunk of prime real estate off Highway 41, he said he never expected to have to share it with a renter.
Read More »Attorney finds his niche in public agencies
Daniel Graff was interested in working in the private sector after law school, but, as he said, it “didn’t take him up on the offer.” Instead, Graff found his way into the public side of law, working 17 years for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources before joining the state Department of Transportation in July.
Read More »Developer loses money in eminent domain lawsuit
A developer who sued the state to get more money for property taken through eminent domain now must return some of the original payment.
Read More »Property – condemnation — valuation
2010AP1923 Winterberry of Lake Delton LLC v. Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Read More »Supreme Court rejects new trial for I-94 eminent domain
A Milwaukee man who claimed the Wisconsin Department of Transportation undervalued his property by as much as $600,000 in a case tied to the construction of the Marquette Interchange won’t get a new trial.
Read More »Jury convicts Marshfield man in ID conspiracy
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a Marshfield man of conspiring to sell fake driver’s licenses. Twenty-six-year-old Ricardo Gonzales De Arcos faces up to 45 years in prison when he’s sentenced in September. According to an indictment and prosecutors, Khue Xiong used his position at a state Department of Transportation office in Stevens Point to produce about ...
Read More »High court agrees to take on barge case
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a Milwaukee property owner assessed the costs of removing a sunken barge from the Menomonee River. At issue is the doctrine of “judicial estoppel,” which provides that a party who successfully argues one position in court cannot then argue the opposite in a second court proceeding. Basil Ryan Jr. ...
Read More »Court confirms owner must pay to have sunken barge removed
Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s seizure of a riverfront property at 260 N. 12th St. The property along the Menomonee ...
Read More »Former landowner faces deadline to remove sunken barge
The former owner of a storage yard in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley whose property was seized through eminent domain faces a Dec. 1 deadline to remove a barge that sank in the river next to his former property.
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