366 ABA Journal Wisconsin articles.
A federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, is barring Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, from running advertisements that fail to give context to its ad claims about rival MillerCoors’ Miller…
May 29, 2019 3:08 PM CDT
MillerCoors is asking a court to order the maker of Bud Light to stop running ads implying that Miller Lite and Coors Light have corn syrup in their beers.
In…
Mar 22, 2019 2:27 PM CDT
A team of lawyers in Wisconsin has launched a center to fight the use of problematic forensic evidence in court. Two co-founders of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, are well-known in pop culture from their roles in the hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer. A follow-up season was released in October.
Mar 1, 2019 1:55 AM CST
A Wisconsin town did not violate a local union’s First Amendment rights by requiring it to take down a giant inflatable rat erected on a highway median, a federal appeals…
Feb 22, 2019 10:59 AM CST
A Wisconsin judge created the appearance of partiality when he accepted a Facebook friend request from a woman before giving her sole custody of her son, a state appeals court…
Feb 22, 2019 7:45 AM CST
Many courthouses throughout the the Midwest announced closings Wednesday as an arctic blast settled on the region.
Both local and federal courthouses reported closings. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of…
Jan 30, 2019 3:42 PM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of a Wisconsin law that authorizes warrantless blood draws from unconscious drivers.
The court agreed Jan. 11 to consider the…
Jan 18, 2019 12:45 PM CST
A former lawyer criticized by two courts for his representation of Brendan Dassey, whose case was profiled in the Making a Murderer Netflix docuseries, was acquitted of felony stalking on…
Dec 11, 2018 12:10 PM CST
A Wisconsin judge ordered a short detention for an assistant public defender last Friday, saying he was in contempt for “acting like I’m some kind of idiot.”
Judge David Borowski…
Oct 30, 2018 4:11 PM CDT
Aug 20, 2018 6:05 AM CDT
Two Michigan lawyers are no longer practicing law at this time after a federal judge accepted their guilty pleas last month in an alleged $4 million phony billing scheme.
Lawyers…
May 14, 2018 8:00 AM CDT
The Wisconsin Lawyer’s Assistance Program Committee has rescinded an award recognizing a lawyer’s volunteer work after the state attorney general noted he had been accused of sexual assault in 2005.
…Apr 23, 2018 7:00 AM CDT
Apr 10, 2018 10:45 AM CDT
Mar 23, 2018 8:00 AM CDT
A suspended Wisconsin lawyer has been accused of forging a judge’s signature on a phony document he gave to a client to mislead him about terms of a plea deal.
…Mar 8, 2018 11:24 AM CST
