Appealing Wisconsin

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

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

Explaining why the Supreme Court dismisses cases as "improvidently granted" would "would only confuse attorneys, judges, and litigants,"...

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

And I even had the slogan for my t-shirt. SCOW Justice Ann Walsh Bradley announced she would retire and not seek re-election. Now what?...

"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...

It is tattered but still a target. More at Vox. At least one judge, moreover, has already weaponized the right to privacy to undermine...

The state tried last week to sell the Wisconsin Supreme Court on a very expansive view of the community caretaker exception to Fourth...

Justice Jill Karofsky wrote the majority opinion. She was joined by Justices Rebecca Dallett, Janet Protasiewicz, and Ann Walsh Bradley....

From AP, via Daily Kos: Schimel has been outspoken on abortion and some other political issues that are almost certain to get more...

Looks like right-wing Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel is in and will challenge Justice Ann Walsh Bradley.

No one 75 or older could be elected or appointed, under the bill by Rep. Nik Rettinger (R-Mukwonago) and Sen. Cory Tomczyk (R-Mosinee)....

Below is a bit more of SCOW Justice Janet Protasiewicz's excellent order declining to recuse herself from participating in redistricting...