Boundary disputes are common between private property owners, local governments, states, or nations. This article discusses the disagreement between the states of Wisconsin and Michigan about Wisconsin's northern border. The dispute, dormant for many years, was resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926 after Michigan brought an original-jurisdiction action.

The author discusses the importance of the rules of evidence, and to a certain extent the rules of civil procedure, in family court trials. This issue deserves special attention by judges and lawyers in the family law context because family law litigants are in as much need of "truth-finding" as litigants in any other area of practice.

Possession of some types of incriminating evidence poses challenges not only for defendants but also for their lawyers. Child pornography is a prominent example. The authors explore differing views as to how lawyers should deal with such evidence if they are aware of its existence or if they have been given the evidence or a device that contains the evidence.