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Oct 16, 2024
The Roundup: Are "god complex" and "woke lunatic" defamatory? Plus, insurance companies and stolen data
Or interesting stuff we couldn't get to otherwise. Coming to you straight from the documents themselves! Brief of appellant Case no:...
Oct 15, 2024
In Brief: State joins defense in challenging special prosecutor appointment
With no additional explanation, the circuit court also granted V1’s request for a special prosecutor.
Oct 10, 2024
Take on a News Take: Evers crossed the line with veto
If the governor thought a more progressive Supreme Court would do his bidding, he was wrong.
Oct 9, 2024
In Brief: Judge wrongly granted medication order, appeal argues
L.A.G. had been in-custody for over 200 days at the time of the hearing, which lessened the state’s interest in prosecution.
Oct 4, 2024
"Dangerousness" not a reason for involuntary medication under competency law, court rules
A pretrial defendant's dangerous is not a reason, under the state law governing competency, to order involuntary medication for the...
Sep 30, 2024
The Roundup: An election recount appeal and a question of understanding
"These three defective absentee ballots decided the election."
Sep 26, 2024
In Brief: Kaul challenges Legislature's intervention in election case
The Legislature's spending "included almost $2 million dollars in 2020 on involvement in election lawsuits against the Commission alone."
Sep 24, 2024
Decision in Brief: Sen. Cory Tomczyk loses defamation case
"Wausau Pilot published the second article at issue in this case, which identified Tomczyk as the individual who had used the slur. "
Sep 22, 2024
The Roundup: Three new SCOW briefs filed in Kaul v Urmanski abortion case
The threat of prosecution could also be “weaponized by abusers,” who could suggest ... that a miscarriage was really an illegal abortion."
Sep 15, 2024
In Brief: Ozanne to SCOW — Urmanski misconstrues abortion laws
"This Court cannot and should not countenance differences among district attorneys in the meaning of a particular criminal statute."
Sep 14, 2024
In Brief: Chisholm to SCOW — DAs need clarity on abortion law
DA Chisholm is one of those district attorneys and believes the law needs to be settled by this Court.
Sep 13, 2024
In Brief: New briefs filed in SCOW abortion case — First up, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul
Is it lawful for physicians to perform an abortion that is not necessary to save the pregnant woman from dying or is doing so a felony?
Sep 11, 2024
News take: the arguments in the big SCOW election cases
“It sounds to me like what you are trying to do is to introduce the fear that there is some sort of illegitimacy going on in the election."
Sep 9, 2024
The Roundup: Two challenges to a state agency's authority
"These provisions are more astonishing for what they leave out. They say nothing about a warrant. They do not require probable cause."
Sep 6, 2024
Mukwonago loses appeal in its effort to build a road where it promised a pond
"The plain language of that statute mandates that the land be used 'for the purposes therein expressed and no other.' ”
Sep 4, 2024
The Roundup: A voting case and a short-term rental ordinance appeal
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Aug 31, 2024
Excluding ordinance violations from job protections would hurt poor, homeless, Legal Action argues
If the decision stands, "the line between prohibited and unprohibited discrimination will be drawn by law enforcement charging decisions."
Aug 29, 2024
In Brief: State appeals appellate ruling suppressing juvenile's statements
"The question is whether these accepted (interview) techniques become coercive if the defendant is under 18."
Aug 26, 2024
Judge erred in deciding youth was ambiguous in invoking right to remain silent, appeals court rules
"When he asked whether he can return to his pod, it was in a tone which suggested he was musing about the possibility."
Aug 21, 2024
A few hard health-or-death decisions about women don't invalidate abortion law: Sheboygan County DA Urmanski
" 'Some uncertainty at the margins does not condemn a statute.' "
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