Lawsuit

A family rights' group says the state can expect a lawsuit if it approves the domestic partner protections in Gov. Jim Doyle's new state budget. Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Action believes the courts would rule them unconstitutional and her group has lawyers looking into...

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has dropped his lawsuit against the state's Government Accountability Board. He says he's now convinced that the agency will do what he wanted and double-check the registrations of voters who have signed up since the start of 2006. Thursday, the...

A judge in Wausau will hold a hearing today (Monday) on a request to drop charges against a couple who prayed as their daughter died from untreated diabetes.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Green Bay officials for a nativity scene placed above the main entrance to City Hall last Christmas. It was only up for two weeks and the city had put a moratorium on similar displays. So Federal Judge William Griesbach said...

We may not know until after the November elections if Wisconsin will have to double-check up to a million voter registrations made since the start of 2006. After a hearing Wednesday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she won't decide the question until Oct. 23. The expected...

The state Republican Party is the latest group that wants to join Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's lawsuit against the Government Accountability Board. Van Hollen says he wants the Board to abide by federal law and review at least 241,000 voter registrations made since January...

SHELL LAKE -- A legal battle among a family of multimillionaires in the Minong area, spawned by a father-son rift in 2002, might finally be resolved next week, after six weeks of testimony in Washburn County Circuit Court. In 2005, Link Snacks, owned by Jack Link and son Troy Link,...

A St. Croix County judge ordered a former security guard and his employer to pay $1.4 million to women whose employee badge photos the man altered and posted on pornographic Web sites. In a lengthy decision filed June 6, Judge Eric Lundell ordered Troy C. Schmidt, 666 W. 4th St.,...

The Tomah school district faces a lawsuit from a student who says he was discriminated against because he drew a picture for art class with Christian references. The lawsuit says the student's drawing showed a cross and a reference to the Bible, and because of that, the art teacher...

The state of Wisconsin says a lawsuit filed by the Ho Chunk Nation is just an attempt to delay collection of $72 million. The state says the Ho Chunk owes that money for the casinos it operates. The tribe says it isn't obligated to pay. The suit filed in Dane County Circuit Court...