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Mar 27, 2024
In Brief: Judge biased in sentencing driver who who killed two while fleeing gunman, appeal says
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...
Mar 26, 2024
SCOW shoots down Amazon's appeal on driver classification
It was short and sweet: The state Supreme Court dismissed Amazon's appeal of the state's classification of some Amazon drivers as...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: appeals court says graphic warnings on cigarette packs are legal
From Reuters: Reversing a lower court ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found that the 11 warnings required...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: There is a desperate need for immigration lawyers
Wisconsin Public Radio has an excellent story on the crisis. Five years ago, immigrants had legal representation in 65 percent of cases...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Jim Troupis advising on judicial conduct?! Say it ain't so!
The state Supreme Court's conservatives reappointed him in March 2023, when they ran things. The Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee was...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Biden nomination of Muslim-American to be on appeals court in peril
Two Democratic senators say they will not support Adeel Mangi. From NBC: Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Are conservative justices getting impatient with the Fifth District?
Are conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices getting impatient with some of the shenanigans of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals? From...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Justice Janet on the case. And stays there.
Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz defies right-wing legal firm, refuses to recuse herself from mobile voting van case. The...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Enbridge looks for a friendlier venue in pipeline fight
Enbridge Inc. wants to move the fight over 70-year-old Line 5, which passes through the northern part of the state and Michigan's Upper...
Mar 15, 2024
News take: SCOW rules against Catholic Charities in unemployment insurance case
The 4-3 ruling said charities operated by the Catholic Diocese in Superior is not exempt from unemployment insurance payments. The lawyer...
Mar 14, 2024
Pewaukee can't charge transportation user fees: Appeals court
The Village of Pewaukee's transportation user fee is an "impermissible tax" and not a fee as the village contended, the state Court of...
Mar 13, 2024
Summary: Challenging Covid-era trial delays
Even shorter than the case "briefs" I've been posting, these summaries - lifted straight from appeals documents - allow me to cover even...
Mar 13, 2024
In brief: Waukesha judge erred in excluding other-acts testimony, state argues
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...
Mar 13, 2024
News take: SCOW to hear absentee ballot box ban case
Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley is angry again in dissent. She is often quite mad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story.
Mar 11, 2024
News take: The right to privacy
It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...
Mar 8, 2024
News take: Appellate court rules in favor of pollutants
Two of the state's most conservative appellate judges, Shelley Grogan and Maria Lazar. sitting on the most state's conservative...
Mar 6, 2024
Appeals court win for open records: Glendale must turn over licensee information
The mere possibility of identity theft is "insufficient to overcome the strong public interest in disclosure" of information about a...
Mar 4, 2024
Appeal in brief: State Claims Board wrongly denied compensation to wrongly convicted man
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...
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