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Jul 17, 2024
Supreme Court reverses key previous mental recommitment rulings; grants new protections
The state Supreme Court has tossed out major rulings in its own five-year-old precedent and ruled that counties cannot involuntarily...
Jul 3, 2024
The SCOW justices' deep divide is showing in new order
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
Jun 21, 2024
"Community caretaking" seizures and searches ripe for reform?
"It's possible some of the more expansive understandings of community caretaking in Wisconsin and elsewhere may need to be circumscribed."
Jun 18, 2024
A tangled SCOW decision, but majority agreement on tossing drunk driving conviction
"While reasonable suspicion doesn't demand much, it does demand more than a hunch," Hagedorn wrote. "And that is all we see here."
May 27, 2024
In brief: Grassl Bradley doubles down on opposing explanations in dismissed cases
Explaining why the Supreme Court dismisses cases as "improvidently granted" would "would only confuse attorneys, judges, and litigants,"...
Apr 17, 2024
Rebecca Bradley says some defendants must seek judicial substitution before even knowing knowing who the judge is
Some defendants in criminal cases should be required to make judicial substitution requests before knowing who the assigned judge is,...
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...
Dec 27, 2023
Appeals court OKs release of records identifying people who can't vote due to incompetency
Court records identifying people found illegible to vote due to mental incompetency are public records and should be released to the...
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....
Oct 9, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz's brilliant takedown of recusal demands - Part 1
There is so much to admire in Justice Janet Protasiewicz's Friday order declining to recuse herself from redistricting litigation that...
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