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Feb 17, 2024
State challenges ruling OKing job discrimination based on arrests for municipal violations
The state Supreme Court should overturn a ruling that allows employers to discriminate in hiring based on arrests for civil municipal...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW consultants call out Republican gerrymandered maps
The Republicans argued that the the political geography of the state favors them because Democrats are concentrated in large cities. From...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW says Dean Phillips will be on the ballot
From NBC: The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Rep. Dean Phillips will be on the Democratic primary ballot, saying he meets...
Feb 3, 2024
News take: SCOW accepts another original jurisdiction case
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel brings the story. MADISON — The state Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge from Democratic...
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Feb 2, 2024
Justices appear not to buy argument for expansive "community caretaker" exception
The state tried last week to sell the Wisconsin Supreme Court on a very expansive view of the community caretaker exception to Fourth...
Jan 31, 2024
News take: Justice Janet Protasiewicz again asked to recuse from maps case
It's already rerun season! Republican Congressional Reps. Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany, and Scott Fitzgerald...
Jan 18, 2024
Wisconsin's congressional districts challenged in new lawsuit
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Elias Law Group,chaired by Marc Elias, who has led previous voting access lawsuits in Wisconsin and...
Jan 15, 2024
News take: Complaint filed by former courts director against four SCOW justices dismissed
Let's not forget that former courts official Randy Koshnick violated confidentiality provisions of the rules governing such things when...
Jan 14, 2024
News take: Most proposed maps better for Democrats than existing districts
Because the Legislature, U.S. Supreme Court, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ensured that the existing maps ensured Republican dominance...
Jan 14, 2024
News take: SCOW gets proposed redistricting maps
"Mine is the best!" they all say. More at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Dec 29, 2023
Gotta love the headline
"Wisconsin Prepares to Crush a Slithering Republican Gerrymander," The Nation proclaims. From the story: The rigging of the Wisconsin...
Dec 23, 2023
A roundup of news about SCOW's 4-3 decision ordering new legislative maps
Justice Jill Karofsky wrote the majority opinion. She was joined by Justices Rebecca Dallett, Janet Protasiewicz, and Ann Walsh Bradley....
Dec 21, 2023
Petition for Review in brief: A drug death, circumstantial evidence, and a guilty verdict
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full. These "in...
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Dec 11, 2023
WMC sees awful, terrible things happening if state's Amazon gig drivers are classified as employees
WMC is one of two parties filing amicus briefs in this case. I will post on Legal Action of Wisconsin's brief soon. The educational...
Dec 4, 2023
Brad Schimel announces for SCOW
From AP, via Daily Kos: Schimel has been outspoken on abortion and some other political issues that are almost certain to get more...
Nov 26, 2023
The 2025 SCOW campaign is starting
Looks like right-wing Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel is in and will challenge Justice Ann Walsh Bradley.
Nov 25, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part six: And, finally, there were three more
I couldn't let the curtain fall on the plus-sized legal cast in the Rebecca Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission case without...
Nov 22, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 5: Another six reporting for intervening petitioners
Good thing the SCOW justices set some ground rules. If all the lawyers on the docket took their turns at the state Supreme Court podium,...
Nov 21, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 4: The Evers seven
Gov. Tony Evers, favoring new legislative maps, is bringing seven lawyers to the Rebecca Clarke case argued today before the state...
Nov 20, 2023
The Rebecca Clarke lawyerly lineup, part 3: 11 for the Legislature to intervene
The Legislature has hired enough lawyers to field a full baseball lineup plus two relievers to represent it in the Rebecca Clarke...
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