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Goat’s-Head Note Threatens Lawyer

Remember the fictional scene in The Godfather involving a severed horse’s head? A similarly aggressive threat apparently was intended by the person responsible for leaving a severed goat’s head for a real-life Wisconsin attorney, reports an ABC-affiliated local television station. The goat’s mouth held a threatening note, the contents of…

Aug 29, 2007 1:46 AM CDT

Lawmakers Move to Slash Law School $$

A Wisconsin lawmaker fed up with “ambulance chasers” and “frivolous lawsuits” has managed to convince his state’s General Assembly this week to de-fund the University of Wisconsin law school. “We don’t need more ambulance chasers. We don’t need frivolous lawsuits. And we don’t need attorneys making people’s lives miserable when…

Jul 13, 2007 11:03 PM CDT

Wis. Archdiocese Can Be Sued for Fraud

It’s too late for five alleged child victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Milwaukee between 1973 and 1982 to sue the archdiocese there for negligent supervision. But it may not be too late to sue for fraud, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided today, reversing a lower court dismissal…

Jul 11, 2007 5:31 PM CDT

City Didn’t Discriminate re Bipolar Atty

A former city attorney in Lake Geneva, Wis., says he won’t appeal a state administrative law judge ruling that he wasn’t discriminated against due to his bipolar disorder. Michael Rielly had contended the city didn’t reasonably accommodate his disability last summer when it fired him from his elected position several…

Jul 6, 2007 9:19 PM CDT

Another Big Defense Win in Paint Case

Now is apparently the time to be a defense lawyer representing a paint manufacturer in big-bucks litigation over injuries allegedly caused by lead-based products manufactured decades ago. Hard on the heels of recent defense victories in lead paint lawsuits in Missouri and New Jersey, a jury in Milwaukee, Wisc., found…

Jun 23, 2007 1:41 AM CDT

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Officials Must Specify Subject of Public Meetings

Government officials must specify the subject of public meetings, particularly when they know the subject is likely to be controversial, the Wisconsin Supreme Court says. Ruling today on a parent’s protest that the state’s 30-year-old open meetings law had not been followed when the Tomah Area School District noticed an…

Jun 13, 2007 8:56 PM CDT

Wisconsin Bar Weighs a Degree of Change

Status may end as last state to admit its law school grads without taking bar exam

Apr 1, 2007 12:50 PM CDT

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Wisconsin Court’s Risk Analysis May Be Last Hope for Lead Paint Plaintiffs

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