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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Sidewalks are Not “Pedestrian Ways” to Allow for Eminent Domain Seizures

JonathanTurley

Bumble responds that “if the law supposes that, the law is a ass – a idiot.” The scene came to mind with a decision yesterday when the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 4-3 in Sojenhomer v. Moreover, there is a statute that expressly bars the use of eminent domain to take property to for “pedestrian way[s].”

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

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. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.

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Blockbuster watch: Affirmative action, same-sex weddings, and other big relists

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Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. Wisconsin v. Wisconsin v. relisted after the Jan.

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Raskin: Trump Officials Can Be Arrested En Masse for “Kidnapping” Undocumented Persons

JonathanTurley

Raskin prefaced his legal analysis with a heavy dose of hyperbole, warning viewers that “theyre arresting judges” and portraying Judge Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin as an innocent victim of a law-hating, authoritarian regime. Under 18 U.S.C. It is true that there was an order during the flight to return to the United States.

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