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. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin strongly urges the U.S.

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HowAppealing

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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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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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2023

New Jersey’s so-called “slogan statutes” permit candidates in primary elections to have a short phrase – containing no more than six words – listed next to their names on the ballot. But before the primary elections took place, they went to court to challenge the constitutionality of the slogan statutes. 31139(b)(1).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2021

District Judge James Peterson this week upheld Wisconsin’s voter identification rules for college students. 2020), the court considered a variety of challenges to Wisconsin voting regulations, including one part of § 5.02(6m)(f). Peterson found that such rules were rationally related to the purpose of combatting voter fraud.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 31, 2021

of the Wisconsin Statute relating to the maintenance and repair of private roads with access easements. 2021 Senate Bill 283 is being proposed to create Section 710.20

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Second, courts will read federal statutes to abrogate that immunity only when they speak to the point “unequivocal[ly].” The Band’s argument is simple: the statute never mentions Indian tribes. Because it doesn’t mention Indian tribes, the Band contends that the statute does not unequivocally extend to them.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas reversed the Board’s decision without affording any deference to the agency’s interpretation of the relevant statute. Later, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals held that a court must defer to an administrative interpretation only if the court finds a statute to be ambiguous.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Wisconsin, for example, is one of about half of all states that don’t require hate-crime reporting by law enforcement, as well as one of about two-thirds nationwide that doesn’t legally require officer hate-crime training. Only nine states, not including Wisconsin, had laws protecting hate-crime victims and survivors.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , will be the second case argued on Monday, the opening day of the 2022-23 term. On one side is Delaware.

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

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Radio stations in California and television stations in Illinois and Wisconsin should be putting the finishing touches on their license renewal applications, ahead of the August 2 filing deadline. The information shared with FEMA and the FCC allows them to determine the successes and failures of the test.

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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. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Multiple States, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, argue that the common law does not apply because the abandoned proceeds of the Disputed Instruments are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Checks Act. In Delaware v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin : The case centers on what should happen to uncashed checks issued by MoneyGram, which is the second largest money transfer company in the world. McDonough: The case involves whether the doctrine of equitable tolling applies to a statute governing veteran benefits. Arellano v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2017

I recently spoke at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s annual convention and the broadcaster who chaired the association’s Federal legislative committee urged all broadcasters in attendance to register their ideas for reforms. There are lots of old policies that are on the books, often not addressed by statute or rule.

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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. However, on Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the provision was unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Indeed, just this week, the court turned down a challenge of a Wisconsin law imposing a lifetime ban on gun ownership for former felons, including cases involving nonviolent crimes. The high court has been carefully waiting for just the right case to address states and cities that have sought to limit gun rights.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a blow to Democratic governor Tony Evers when it struck down his statewide mask mandate. ” She concluded that the decision “hampers the ability of governors to safeguard the health and lives of the people of Wisconsin.”

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2021

The Archdiocese of Wisconsin filed suit Friday against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC), alleging that the department’s COVID-19 policy restricting ministers’ access to prisoners violates state law. To address COVID-19 concerns, the Wisconsin DOC adopted a policy temporarily suspending all visits.

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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. Wall where the court upheld the statute. The plaintiffs in Braam v. Carr are repeat sex offenders who are subjected to lifetime GPS monitoring as a result of their convictions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND NOTICES. The standards and guidelines were published on August 29, 2016.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The companies filed their brief on November 16, arguing that the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that it was limited to reviewing removal based on the federal-officer removal statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. In Polk County, Wisconsin v. These and other petitions of the week are below: Polk County, Wisconsin v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2021

District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Epic Systems won an award of $140 million in compensatory damages in a trade-secrets dispute with Tata Consulting Services. Applying a Wisconsin law that limits punitive damages to twice the amount of compensatory damages, the district court capped Epic’s award at $280 million.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 20, 2021

More fallout is still to come as approximately a quarter of the postconviction challenges involve crimes already beyond the federal statute of limitations. Wisconsin v. The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that these statements were “testimonial hearsay” and thus inadmissible under the confrontation clause. Wisconsin v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The latter program was at issue in last Monday’s oral arguments — specifically, whether Wisconsin Bell, a midwestern offspring of the former AT&T monopoly, can be sued under an anti-fraud statute for overcharging schools and libraries for phone and internet service.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” Wisconsin v. The case has already been rescheduled three times, clearly indicating it’s on at least one of the justices’ radar. Next up is Texas v. relisted after the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. Yet in the end, Joe Biden was elected by a sizable number electoral votes. t is ours, too. It must be ours.”.

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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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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Coverage of federal fraud statutes Porat v. Todd Heath sued Wisconsin Bell under the False Claims Act, alleging that the company charged schools and libraries impermissibly high prices under the E-rate program, thereby rendering each reimbursement request a false claim. In Wisconsin Bell, Inc. United States and Kousisis v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2022

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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