No. 2004, June 2004
Index
- 2003 court rulings cause confusion regarding compensatory, punitive damages ratio.
- 7th Circuit vacates deportations to Bulgaria, Sudan.
- Attorneys liable for client's medical bill.
- Commentary: Law helps cooperation between tribal, state courts.
- Court cannot deny jury trial for failure to pay jury fee.
- Court combines choice of law, forum clauses.
- Electronic discovery roundtable: Part I.
- Electronic roundtable: Part II.
- Filing summons is 'initial communication' under Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
- Former deputy Wisc. State Public Defender dies.
- Forum clause in service contract enforceable.
- Group considers criminal justice alternatives.
- Hearsay does not violate Confrontation Clause.
- Interview with new Dane County Bar Assn. president.
- Judge's supporters respond to opponent's allegations.
- Judicial candidates answer survey.
- Justice Sykes' appointment moves to full Senate.
- Law firm failed to 'inform the debtor' in lawsuit under Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
- Law professor questions language limiting decisions.
- Legal Action of Wisconsin suffers from reduced funding issues and rising costs.
- Legal services funding sources considered.
- Milwaukee attorney will join Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
- New group of lawyers sworn in.
- Outgoing Milwaukee Bar Assn. president passes torch.
- Panel of attorneys discusses how to evaluate cases.
- Panel presents proposed ethics changes.
- Part I: Roundtable discussion on how to handle a lawyer leaving a firm.
- Professional corporations are jurisdictional corporations.
- Quasi-public corporations are subject to WARN Act.
- Seventh Circuit rules attorney fees must be set before review.
- Slander per se must be inherently defamatory.
- State Bar Board of Governors candidates discuss qualifications.
- State can dismiss, refile drunk driving case.
- Status quo presumption trumps equal placement in custody hearing.
- Statute of limitations does not apply to disabled.
- Terms of rental agreement trump statute.
- Terry detainee must now provide identification to police.
- Three judges keep seats in seven circuit court races.
- U.S. Supreme Court clarifies search and seizure rules.
- WI Court of Appeals rules 13-page automobile insurance policy is not organizationally complex.
- WI Court of Appeals rules bacterial outbreak is considered contamination in regard to insurance.
- WI Court of Appeals rules client's guilty plea bars malpractice claim against attorney.
- WI Court of Appeals rules lying to disabled is misrepresentation.
- WI Court of Appeals rules revoked probationer can reopen proceedings.
- WI Court of Appeals rules search warrant also permits arrest.
- WI Court of Appeals rules that supplemental instructions to the jury should be rare.
- WI Court of Appeals rules that trial courts must tell defendants about Truth in Sentencing mandates.
- WI Supreme Court looks at open records vs. attorney-client privilege.
- Wisconsin Supreme Court rules on attorney-client privilege issue.
- Wisconsin's Prison Litigation Reform Act held constitutional.