JURIST

JULY 12, 2024

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday mostly upheld a lower court’s decision that prevents the rejection of absentee ballots with address variations for upcoming elections. Under Wisconsin law, absentee ballots require completion in the presence of a witness, who would then sign it and provide their address.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“Wisconsin Supreme Court rules legislative maps unconstitutional, orders new boundaries for 2024 vote”: Molly Beck and Jessie Opoien of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.

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MAY 2, 2023

“Wisconsin Supreme Court rules for Aurora hospital that refused to administer ivermectin for COVID-19”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin issued today.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the states unemployment tax that it provides to churches, religious schools, and some religious groups.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2025

Today, the voters of Wisconsin go to the polls in what may be the single most expensive and important judicial race in modern history. Both parties are spending millions with the balance of the state Supreme Court in the balance. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. The case is Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc.

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JUNE 7, 2022

“Wisconsin Supreme Court rules in favor of releasing data on COVID outbreaks at businesses after two-year public records battle”: Daphne Chen of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin issued today.

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MARCH 31, 2021

“Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns statewide mask mandate, blocks Evers from declaring multiple emergency orders”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report. ” Todd Richmond of The Associated Press reports that “ Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s mask mandate.”

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APRIL 14, 2021

“Supreme Court rules Gov. Scott Bauer of The Associated Press has a report headlined “ Wisconsin high court: Governor can’t limit business capacity.” ” You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin at this link. .”

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JUNE 20, 2024

“A dispute between Egg Harbor and a popular restaurant has just been settled by the Wisconsin Supreme Court; The Door County village condemned a strip of property at Shipwrecked Brewpub to build a sidewalk, which the property owner claimed was illegal by state statute”: Christopher Clough of The Green Bay Press-Gazette has this report.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Friday ruled that required bar dues for lawyers in Wisconsin are constitutional. File based his argument around two Supreme Court cases that seemingly contradict one another: Keller v. .”

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ABA Journal

JUNE 30, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Tuesday that a woman convicted in a plot to smuggle marijuana to the state from Oregon should be allowed…

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2024

The scene came to mind with a decision yesterday when the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 4-3 in Sojenhomer v. ” Lawyers in Wisconsin are already sending around Bumble-like harrumphs to the decision, which is a testament to the ability of judges to ignore plain meaning to achieve desired results.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The courts may defer to an administrative agency only when a statute is ambiguous, even then deference is only permissive not mandatory. The court referred to Wisconsin and Utah Supreme Court judgements to show that they are not alone in revisiting their deference doctrine.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A Wisconsin lawyer can’t use bankruptcy to avoid an order to pay the costs of an ethics proceeding against him, a federal appeals court ruled…

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

Lathrop involved a similar freedom association challenge concerning mandatory Bar membership in the state of Wisconsin while Keller dealt with free speech. Stating that it was bound by this precedent, the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan rejected Taylor’s challenge on both grounds. .'”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Proctor relied on similar federal court cases in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, in which the courts ruled that the federal Voting Rights Act superseded state law under the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. The clause allows federal laws to take precedence over conflicting state laws. .”

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2024

” This District Court ruling was the center of the Supreme Court’s decision in Alexander. Under Court precedent, namely Miller v. In February, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld their congressional map over racial gerrymandering concerns. Johnson and Shaw v.

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Law 360

MARCH 3, 2023

A company that leases out aircraft owes the Wisconsin 5% sales tax on hourly rates charged to customers used to fund aircraft maintenance because the fees don't qualify as the sale of parts or maintenance, the state Supreme Court ruled.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 3, 2022

Plaintiff in this case filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin hospital resulting from an injury on hospital grounds. During discovery, plaintiff requested "all documents, communication.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. He believed his life was in danger. If you’re the one who is threatening others, you lose the right to claim self-defense.”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. In Wisconsin, minors cannot possess short-barreled rifles under Section 941.28.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Facing termination, Groff chose to resign, and sued USPS in federal court for refusing to accommodate his religious beliefs and practices under Title VII. The trial court ruled for the Postal Service under Hardison , and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit affirmed. Van Linn v.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law provision Friday that allowed police to draw blood from unconscious drivers and test it for alcohol content without a warrant. Many courts have addressed the issue of taking blood samples from drivers without consent, including Texas and Nevada.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. The high court has been carefully waiting for just the right case to address states and cities that have sought to limit gun rights. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Wisconsin v. That is a high standard but the Court rejected many exemptions and ultimately handed down Employment Division v. In 1993, the Court ruled in Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. citing Reynolds as authority. Yoder (1972).

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday upheld lifetime GPS monitoring for some convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin. ” The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit previously addressed lifetime GPS monitoring for convicted sex offenders in Belleau v. The plaintiffs in Braam v.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 19, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a dead woman’s earlier warnings that her husband may kill her can’t be used as evidence in his…

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit disagreed and barred the suit, seeing the compact as more akin to an agreement that New Jersey could — and did — renounce. In Polk County, Wisconsin v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Burke dismissed the government’s motion without prejudice, noting that a stay may be appropriate if the Eleventh Circuit or Supreme Court take up these cases. This case had already made its way up to the Eleventh Circuit when the court ruled that the ban could go into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in McGirt v. The court thereby stripped Oklahoma state courts of jurisdiction over crimes committed by “any Indian” in “Indian country,” and bestowed the federal government with exclusive jurisdiction to try these crimes. Wisconsin v. Wisconsin v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Courts have repeatedly found the Biden administration to be engaging in racial discrimination in such programs. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that racial discrimination does not become good policy despite being carried out with the best of motivations. In 1989, in City of Richmond v. Croson Co. , The public agrees.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

Representing Wisconsin, where the state Supreme Court recently struck down some of the most gerrymandered state legislative districts in the country, I felt this amendment was necessary to ensure that the American people have a democracy that represents them. It was in response to the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Tamara Loertscher arrived at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Aug. The Taylor County Department of Human Services had issued a request for temporary physical custody under Wisconsin Act 292, dubbed the Unborn Child Protection Act. 1, 2014 despondent. Severe hypothyroidism fueled her anguish.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

A detective from Wisconsin told him that he’d hung the slogan up on his office wall. Like most states, Michigan courts’ rules for evidence — adopted from the Daubert standard, which was named after a Supreme Court decision issued almost 30 years ago — say trial judges are responsible for making sure expert testimony has a reliable foundation.

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