JURIST

APRIL 10, 2021

On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling on whether the Wisconsin Elections Commission has a duty to remove voters who may have moved from the rolls, holding that it is not a duty for the commission. Wisconsin liberals have claimed that the policy could remove voters who should remain on the lists.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

The post Wisconsin Bar Loses Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Over Diversity Fellowships appeared first on Above the Law. Yay free speech, I guess.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is THE worst thing the Wisconsin Bar could spend their members’ dues on. The post Wisconsin Institute For Law And Liberty Fights For Right To Not Support Minorities appeared first on Above the Law.

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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. Ironically, the United States Supreme Court made that plain in an important Wisconsin case argued just the day before the state election. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission.

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) How much money has Elon Musk reportedly spent on the Wisconsin state supreme court election which makes it the most expensive state court race in history? The post Elon Musk Sets New Benchmark For Purchasing State Supreme Court Seat appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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HowAppealing

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates pledge to uphold rule of law”: Mitchell Schmidt of the Wisconsin State Journal has this report. And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “ Partisan-backed Wisconsin court candidates vow to be fair.”

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The post Wisconsin Congressman Busts AG Garland’s Balls About Naked Bike Ride In Madison appeared first on Above the Law. Elect a clown, expect a circus.

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JUNE 19, 2024

“Wisconsin Supreme Court takes David Prosser’s name off law library, renames it for first woman lawyer”: Jessie Opoien of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

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Above The Law

APRIL 9, 2025

News & World Report law school rankings are here, and the legal world is definitely interested in all the ups and downs that we’re seeing when it comes to changes in rank. First and foremost, lawyers and law students are in an absolute tizzy over the state of the T14. Lawyer/Judge Assessment: 12.5% Nicely done.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Two public interest groups implored US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday to investigate anonymous text messages sent to young Wisconsin voters threatening civil penalties and jail time for violating state voting laws. years in prison or “fines up to $10,000.”

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MARCH 25, 2025

Wisconsin risks giving employers a sweeping new power to ignore laws protecting their workers”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. “The Supreme Courts new religion case could devastate American workers; Catholic Charities v.

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LegalReader

MAY 8, 2021

A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, which had prevented prisoners from meeting clergy amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, allowed the enforcement of an Arizona election law requiring prospective voters to provide “satisfactory evidence of citizenship” upon registering to vote. Earlier that month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2022

“News media groups want the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that weakened the open records law”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

American Lawyer ] * Democrats win Wisconsin Supreme Court race and whatever one thinks of the race, we can all agree that the Rebecca Bradley’s insane dissents are going to be wildly entertaining for the next couple years. ” [ ABA Journal ] * Law firm puts up a million to encourage AI adoption.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 29, 2023

Wisconsin's Supreme Court Breaks In To A "No, You!" The post Wisconsin Is Known For Cheese And Judicial Beef — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Battle: The spat is somewhere in between our highest values and high school bickering. Biglaw Firms Are About To Get A Bunch Of Work: New FTC regulations just dropped !

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HowAppealing

APRIL 29, 2022

“Court rejects free-speech challenge to mandatory bar dues in Wisconsin”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report. And Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Mandatory Membership in State Bar of Wisconsin Constitutional.” ” Chief Judge Diane S.

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JUNE 4, 2022

“Alleged gunman in shooting of Wisconsin judge had been sentenced by him in 2005”: Lucas Robinson of The Wisconsin State Journal has this report , along with an article headlined “ Slain Wisconsin judge John Roemer remembered as dedicated husband, man of the law.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Retired Juneau County, Wisconsin judge John “Jack” Roemer was shot and killed in his home in what the state attorney general described as a “targeted act” against the judicial system by a man who also had several high-profile government officials as potential targets, reports the New York Times. Wisconsin Gov. The shooter, Douglas K.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2024

Under the new law, 17-year-olds can vote in the primaries if they are US citizens, reside in the district they expect to vote in and will be 18 by the next general election. However, the law does not take effect until January 2026, so 17-year-olds in New Jersey cannot vote in the 2024 primaries.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 1, 2025

“Supreme Court Should Give Catholic Charities a Tax Exemption; The organizations Wisconsin chapter is challenging the states refusal to grant it the same exemption from paying unemployment taxes given to churches, religious schools and other groups”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 14, 2023

“Armslist Not Liable for Hosting Gun Sale Ads That Led to Purchases by People Who Used the Guns Criminally; The Seventh Circuit so holds, applying Wisconsin tort law, and not reaching the 47 U.S.C. § 230 issue”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that the U.S.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 29, 2023

The post Wisconsin Chief Justice Accuses Colleagues Of A ‘Coup’ But It Sounds A Lot More Like She Just Doesn’t Like The Election Results appeared first on Above the Law. There's a lot of anger between these judges.

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APRIL 23, 2023

“The Supreme Court Stopped Short of a Radical Act; Both the mifepristone ruling and the Wisconsin judicial election suggest the politics of court reform are shifting”: Law professor Aziz Huq has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

“The ‘Frankenstein Veto’ Is a Power No Governor Should Have; The Wisconsin governor’s attempt to secure school funding for the next 400 years has called attention to the undemocratic loophole”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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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. Attorney Schuyler File sued the State Bar of Wisconsin over compulsory association membership and fees, arguing that the payments violate his First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of association.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What does that mean for Wisconsin social hosts?

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JUNE 8, 2022

“Arrest of Would-Be Assassin Near Kavanaugh’s Home Is Stark Reminder of Danger Welling Up Against Our Judges; The suspect was carrying a Glock pistol and zip ties, echoing the murder last week of a judge in Wisconsin”: A.R. Hoffman of The New York Sun has this report.

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The Paralegal Society

AUGUST 1, 2017

By: Jamie Collins I’m sure you’ve seen that tech CEO from Wisconsin in the news proclaiming his proud plans to … Continue reading →

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Federal appeals court finds parts of state hunter harassment law unconstitutional”: Chris Rickert of The Wisconsin State Journal recently had this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Monday.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 22, 2025

Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. They assert that they are exempt from coverage under Wisconsin’s Unemployment Compensation Act because they are operated primarily for religious purposes. Wisconsin Supreme Courts Decision CCB and the sub-entities sought judicial review. Pursuant to Wis.Stat.

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Law 360

MARCH 21, 2024

Wisconsin on Thursday solidified a licensing framework for so-called earned wage access services when Gov. Tony Evers signed a state law regulating the cash-advance products.

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. Delegates representing Oklahoma, Wyoming, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, and more came together to say: democracy is for everyone. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. Are we open to persuasion?

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

Getty Images There are really two types of personal injury law firms: those with attorneys who are willing to go to trial, and those who would rather settle. Next, the three got into how Bob and Michael have employed marketing strategies for a start-up law firm in a competitive business (18:22).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Authorities allege that Google’s collection of location information violated the participating states’ consumer protection laws because “ Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information.”

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