Appealing Wisconsin

If the governor thought a more progressive Supreme Court would do his bidding, he was wrong.

The threat of prosecution could also be “weaponized by abusers,” who could suggest ... that a miscarriage was really an illegal abortion."

"This Court cannot and should not countenance differences among district attorneys in the meaning of a particular criminal statute."

DA Chisholm is one of those district attorneys and believes the law needs to be settled by this Court.

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?

“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."

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If the decision stands, "the line between prohibited and unprohibited discrimination will be drawn by law enforcement charging decisions."

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

" 'Some uncertainty at the margins does not condemn a statute.' "

The Planned Parenthood plaintiffs in an abortion rights case pending before the state Supreme Court oppose Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome...

This post was update Aug. 8, 2024 to correct the names of the attorneys representing Chisholm. Oops. Too many open windows. You can now...

More problematic is when a court guesses when a payor will retire and ending maintenance at that point.

The appellate court ruled that "arrests" referred only to arrests for criminal offenses, not municipal offenses.

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Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki told the state Supreme Court this week that granting abortion rights to women would "substantially...

The state Supreme Court has tossed out major rulings in its own five-year-old precedent and ruled that counties cannot involuntarily...

Catching up after time off, during which the Supreme Court dropped a couple big decisions. So if you, like me, were not engrossed in...

Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley engages in ad hominem attacks that would be more at home in an ill-advised late-night rant on social media