Appealing Wisconsin

The Eighth Circuit refuses to reconsider a decision that could further limit the viability of the Voting Rights Act. A federal appeals...

Poor Samuel Alito must be furious. From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate: On Monday, the court issued a landmark opinion declaring that abortion...

Yes, but will the "We know better than you" supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court actually listen? From the Courthouse News story: “A...

It's already rerun season! Republican Congressional Reps. Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany, and Scott Fitzgerald...

The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Joshua Kolar, from Indiana. The Chicago Sun-Times has the story. The U.S. Seventh Circuit...

The State Court of Appeals this week rejected a request that the court recognize the so-called canine "instinct exception" to the U.S....

The U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S. Border Patrol could remove the razor wire that Texas installed along its border with Mexico....

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl is entitled to a hearing on his related to his claims of new evidence indicating the...

The need to find a new death-penalty method is behind the effort in Alabama. Lawyers for condemned inmate Kenneth Smith are asking the...

But have no fear, you who already have shelled out for the technology. Your blood-oxygen measuring function will continue to work. It's...

Because we want dirtier air, dirtier water, and more plastics in our bloodstreams. Of course we do! NBC has more, followed by the...

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Elias Law Group,chaired by Marc Elias, who has led previous voting access lawsuits in Wisconsin and...

Use your imagination to figure out how homeless people are supposed to deal with laws like the Grants Pass, Oregon, ordinance at issue...

From the story: Along one stretch,armed Texas National Guard members and their vehicles are preventing Border Patrol agents from...

Let's not forget that former courts official Randy Koshnick violated confidentiality provisions of the rules governing such things when...

Because the Legislature, U.S. Supreme Court, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ensured that the existing maps ensured Republican dominance...

"Mine is the best!" they all say. More at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

In which, the appeal alleges, a defendant's other bad acts were told to jurors after the defense lawyer opened the door "In brief" posts...

"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full. These "in...

Artificial intelligence could be good, the chief opines. It also could be really, really bad. Ground-breaking stuff. And he dances nicely...