A Michigan city’s ordinance that required some residents to connect their home’s drainage systems to the municipal storm-sewer system and install sump pumps was challenged Wednesday as unconstitutional before a Sixth Circuit panel that appeared unlikely to rule in their favor.
Read moreThe Third Circuit appeared critical Wednesday that a Kinder Morgan subsidiary should rely on federal law to pay less than fair-market value for land it seized via eminent domain to build an interstate pipeline.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed an appeals court ruling that the city of Madison does not have to compensate an advertising firm for building a bridge that obstructed the view of one side of its billboard.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a lawsuit related to a $10 billion electronics manufacturing factory touted by President Donald Trump over the objections of Wisconsin residents who said a development agreement between their city and Foxconn Technology Group unlawfully takes their property.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case centered on whether a city’s placement of a bridge that blocks the view of a billboard amounts to an illegal taking of property.
Read moreA dispute involving private cemeteries is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, after the justices agreed Monday to decide whether a property owner must first exhaust all state court remedies before filing a federal lawsuit asserting an unconstitutional taking of land.
Read moreWisconsin residents filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday contesting the loss of their homes to the $10 billion Foxconn electronics factory, a project touted by President Donald Trump that is expected to break ground this year.
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Animal-rights advocates claim in court that a Minnesota agriculture farm offers “pet-n-plays” with gray wolf puppies but then kills the animals after they grow too old for visitor interactions.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that had struck down the state’s controversial “right-to-work” law, finding that it does not constitute an unlawful taking from unions.
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