Appealing Wisconsin

A pretrial defendant's dangerous is not a reason, under the state law governing competency, to order involuntary medication for the...

"Wausau Pilot published the second article at issue in this case, which identified Tomczyk as the individual who had used the slur. "

"The plain language of that statute mandates that the land be used 'for the purposes therein expressed and no other.' ”

"The question is whether these accepted (interview) techniques become coercive if the defendant is under 18."

"When he asked whether he can return to his pod, it was in a tone which suggested he was musing about the possibility."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an order barring an anti-abortion protester from coming close to a...

"It's possible some of the more expansive understandings of community caretaking in Wisconsin and elsewhere may need to be circumscribed."

"While reasonable suspicion doesn't demand much, it does demand more than a hunch," Hagedorn wrote. "And that is all we see here."

A man's statement that he wanted to bring the police chief "to justice" is not enough to have him involuntarily committed and medicated...

The case: Scot Van Oudenhoven v Wisconsin Department of Justice Case no.: 2023AP70-FT "In brief" posts are shorter looks at various court...

The full decision in State v Jobert L. Molde, 21AP1346, is here. A lawyer's failure to object to improper testimony in a sexual assault...

A Racine County judge wrongly failed to allow a defendant in an eviction proceeding to present evidence and make her argument before...

Because the potential of losing both parental figures when one dies promotes stability. What chance will a non-legally recognized parent...

Repeated threats by police to arrest a woman who refused permission to search her house, police refusal to allow her to go inside where her

Requesting a judicial substitution after the original trial judge is identified but not yet officially assigned is allowed under the law, th

Some defendants in criminal cases should be required to make judicial substitution requests before knowing who the assigned judge is,...

A Rock County Circuit Court judge who ignored an appeals court order to hold a new trial did not err when he reinstated a dismissed count...

The widow of a man killed by a Milwaukee County Transit System bus as he crossed the street deserves a new trial in her civil case "in...

From Reuters: Reversing a lower court ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found that the 11 warnings required...

The 4-3 ruling said charities operated by the Catholic Diocese in Superior is not exempt from unemployment insurance payments. The lawyer...