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Amicus says municipal home rule at stake in Pewaukee transportation fee case: summary
By implementing a TUF, a municipality can recover costs for transportation services in a way that is more equitable ...
May 7, 2024


Summary: Pewaukee appeals to SCOW a ruling striking down transportation utility fee
Summary: Pewaukee appeals to SCOW a ruling striking down transportation utility fee
May 1, 2024
News take: State Supreme Court rules against single-parent adoptions
Because the potential of losing both parental figures when one dies promotes stability. What chance will a non-legally recognized parent...
May 1, 2024


Well. Crap.
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?...
Apr 12, 2024


The state's harassment injunction law an issue in abortion protester case
Updated 4/11/24 to correct End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin acronym. Applying a U.S. Supreme Court criminal case ruling to state harassment...
Apr 3, 2024
News take: Jim Troupis advising on judicial conduct?! Say it ain't so!
The state Supreme Court's conservatives reappointed him in March 2023, when they ran things. The Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee was...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: Justice Janet on the case. And stays there.
Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz defies right-wing legal firm, refuses to recuse herself from mobile voting van case. The...
Mar 22, 2024
News take: SCOW rules against Catholic Charities in unemployment insurance case
The 4-3 ruling said charities operated by the Catholic Diocese in Superior is not exempt from unemployment insurance payments. The lawyer...
Mar 15, 2024


In brief: Waukesha judge erred in excluding other-acts testimony, state argues
"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...
Mar 13, 2024
News take: SCOW to hear absentee ballot box ban case
Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley is angry again in dissent. She is often quite mad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the story.
Mar 13, 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...
Feb 3, 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...
Feb 2, 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 31, 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 15, 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.
Jan 14, 2024
Gotta love the headline
"Wisconsin Prepares to Crush a Slithering Republican Gerrymander," The Nation proclaims. From the story: The rigging of the Wisconsin...
Dec 29, 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...
Dec 21, 2023
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