With the backing of a prominent conservative advocacy group, three voters from the Milwaukee suburbs sued Wisconsin elections officials Wednesday in an attempt to make them update the state’s voter rolls and purge thousands of voters who may have moved.
Read moreThe Republican-led Wisconsin Legislature is not allowed to intervene in a Planned Parenthood challenge to state abortion laws, the Seventh Circuit ruled, finding the Democratic attorney general is capable of representing the state’s interests.
Read moreThe GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature quickly shut down a special floor session meant to debate gun reform Thursday night, fulfilling a promise made almost immediately after the session was called by the Democratic governor.
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Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers tried for months to get the Republican-controlled Legislature to take up a pair of gun-control bills, holding news conferences and touting polls showing strong public support. When Republicans wouldn’t budge, Evers turned up the heat by using an executive order — his 54th in less than a year — to call a special session on the issue.
Read moreThe bitter fight over controversial lame-duck laws passed by Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature limiting the powers of the Democratic governor and attorney general continued in the state’s high court Monday, where the justices needled over the extent of executive authority and separation of powers.
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A federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit Monday by the state’s Democratic Party over lame-duck laws passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature that limited the powers of the Democratic governor and attorney general.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit was critical Monday of MillerCoors’ false advertising claims against Anheuser-Busch over multimillion-dollar Bud Light advertisements claiming that Miller Lite and Coors Lite contain corn syrup, pointing out that Miller itself lists corn syrup as an ingredient in its beers.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court needled over questions of bordering properties Thursday during oral arguments in a case pitting a town against a nearby city over land annexed for a luxury golf course.
Read moreAmplifying the call from Badger State liberals for stricter gun control measures, Wisconsin Democrats introduced new red-flag legislation Thursday with the backing of the governor and state attorney general, but the measure is unlikely to pass the GOP-controlled Legislature.
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Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a pillar of the conservative caucus, announced Tuesday that he will run for the state’s Fifth Congressional District seat, which will be open when 76-year-old Representative Jim Sensenbrenner retires at the end of his current term.
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A federal jury in Wisconsin unanimously ruled in favor of a Texas semen-sexing firm Monday after a five-day trial over patents and contracts related to bovine technology that converts raw bull ejaculate into sex-specific semen for cattle breeding.
Read moreSeventh Circuit judges were sympathetic Friday to arguments that the Wisconsin Legislature should be allowed to intervene in a Planned Parenthood challenge to state abortion laws because Republican lawmakers don’t trust the Democratic attorney general to properly defend the laws.
Read moreSeventh Circuit judges pressed the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to explain how the Menominee Tribe could navigate the complex intersection of federal and state law to challenge a mine’s application for a permit allowing runoff into a river that forms the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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More than five years of litigation over bovine technology that converts raw bull ejaculate into sex-specific semen for cattle breeding continued in Wisconsin federal court Tuesday, as a Wisconsin bull-stud and a Texas semen-sexing firm delivered opening statements in their latest round of legal beefing.
Read moreCatholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.
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A woman exonerated of an arson conviction claims in court that the Wisconsin sheriff’s office that handled the case and pushed for her prosecution denied her due process throughout the investigation and subsequent trial.
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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers applied renewed pressure on state agencies Tuesday to address the problem human-made chemicals that contaminate the water table and threaten human health.
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