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Your comprehensive archive of all news stories added to WisBar.org. You’ll find stories featured on the WisBar.org homepage, in the Wisconsin Lawyer magazine, the WisBar InsideTrack, the Rotunda Report, and on individual pages of WisBar.org.
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Court of appeals limits employer’s ability to avoid payments to employee
Feb. 8, 2010 – The Wisconsin Court of Appeals remanded a case in which an employee alleges her employer fired her merely to avoid paying benefits she earned before discharge. If true, the court found that agency law obliges the employer to pay. -
Car Talk: Justices to consider when a motorist has 'run' from scene of accident
Feb. 5, 2010 — A motorist stopped to ask if he hurt a boy he hit with his car before driving away without providing identification after the boy said he was unharmed. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 10 and decide whether hit-and-run insurance covers the boy when he subsequently discovered injuries. -
Senate Judiciary Committee recommends Louis Butler as Western District judge
Feb. 4, 2010 – For the second time in two months, the Senate Judiciary Committee today recommended approval of President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler as a federal district court judge for the Western District of Wisconsin. -
Illegal police search of cell phone does not invalidate conviction
Feb. 3, 2010 – The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that only legally obtained evidence served as a basis for a search warrant. But two dissenting justices questioned whether information learned from an illegal search actually influenced the police decision to seek a warrant and the magistrate’s decision to grant it. -
New Fair hearing decision finds that irrevocable, nonassignable annuity is not an asset, despite "valuation."
New Fair hearing Decision, finding that irrevocable, nonassignable annuities held by an incompetent person cannot be sold or transferred, and are therefore not assets, even though "valued." -
New Fair hearing Decision, finding that irrevocable, nonassignable annuities held by an incompetent person cannot be sold or transferred, and are therefore not assets, even though "valued."
New Fair hearing Decision, finding that irrevocable, nonassignable annuities held by an incompetent person cannot be sold or transferred, and are therefore not assets, even though "valued." -
Limit on evidence in drunk driving cases upheld
Feb. 2, 2010 – The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a defendant’s effort to introduce the results of a preliminary breath test he believed showed a blood alcohol content level below the legal limit. State law prohibits the use of those test results in drunk driving trials. -
Despite notario law, UPL operations targeting immigrants persist in Wisconsin
Feb. 2, 2010 – A Waukesha business targeting its services toward low-income Spanish-speaking immigrants raises questions about the effectiveness of a 2008 Wisconsin law intended to curb the abusive practices of some notarios who engage in the unauthorized practice of law. -
Creditors’ suit against corporate officers barred
Feb. 1, 2010 – The Wisconsin Court of Appeals urged the state supreme court to revisit its 2004 decision that prevents creditors from suing officers and directors for their mismanagement of an insolvent corporation.
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