Lawsuit

A lawsuit against the New Richmond Police, which challenges its current practice of withholding information about traffic accidents, break-ins and other police activity, is on its way back to St. Croix County Circuit Court — the result of a decision by federal Magistrate Judge Stephen...

State Senate Republican Dan Kapanke says he'll need time to pay back the $38,000 he owes taxpayers for settling a public records' lawsuit. The La Crosse lawmaker says he's refinancing some personal property and he promises to start paying the state later this year. Kapanke was...

After three years a Fond du Lac woman has settled her lawsuit against California growers and shippers of spinach. Jane Majeska is 85 years old. She became sick in August 2006, after eating E. coli-tainted spinach packaged by Dole. The nationwide outbreak killed three people,...

Wisconsin will get $5 million in the settlement of a national lawsuit against the drug maker Pfizer Inc. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced the settlement Wednesday. Pfizer agreed to pay a total of $2.3 billion to settle allegations that it promoted the anti-inflammatory...

Two consumer groups have sued a Wisconsin panel over the way it approved a large wind energy farm in Minnesota. The Public Service Commission recently OK'd a plan by Wisconsin Power and Light to create wind turbines in south central Minnesota that would generate 200 megawatts of...

Madison attorney Lester Pines will defend the state in a lawsuit that challenges the new legal protections for same-sex couples. Gov. Jim Doyle hired Pines yesterday, after Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen refused to fight the suit filed by three board members of the Wisconsin Family...

The recording industry has settled a lawsuit against one of the University of Wisconsin students it accused of illegally downloading music from the Internet. Federal Judge Barbara Crabb has approved a settlement in the case of Frank Minervini of Wisconsin Rapids, a student at the...

People whose homes were swept away on Lake Delton last year are now asking for another $1.3 million from the village. The state gave them $2.3 million for condemnation rights, as the lakeshore was rebuilt following last June's dramatic washouts from heavy rains. Now, a claim to...

A federal judge is letting Brookfield Central and East high schools hold their graduations at the Elmbrook mega-church this weekend. But the lawsuit that challenged the location is not over. The Americans United for the Separation of Church-and-State also wants damages from past...

A man is suing his brother over Green Bay Packers' season tickets. Walter Christman died last April, and gave his two sons the right to sell 13 prime mid-field seats. Michael Christman of Van Buren, Ark., got the tickets and he was supposed to give 45 percent of the profits to...

A former Milwaukee Catholic grade school principal has been sued by a man she was convicted of molesting. Gerald Kobs, 56, said he still has nightmares and headaches from the abuse he took from Sr. Norma Giannini in the 1960s at St. Patrick's School. He's also suing her former religious...

The children of a pedestrian killed on New Year's Eve wants La Crosse County to pay them $625,000. They said the county was negligent for not clearing a snowy sidewalk making William Harter, 55, walk on a street where he was hit by two vehicles. They said the accumulating snow...

For the second time this year, the city of New Richmond vs. Vernon Borst commenced in a St. Croix County court room Wednesday morning, after a mistrial was declared in the case in January. The case pits the city against a couple who claim they are simply making a living selling used...

A legal battle between two area residents will be featured on today's episode of Judge Joe Brown. According to a press release promoting the Judge Joe Brown show, "a longtime friendship is not enough to pay the bills in New Richmond when one sneaks into the other's rental property...

Officials have settled a lawsuit from a political consulting firm over the way the state gives out voter information. The Government Accountability Board will pay $7,500 in legal fees to the Michigan firm of Practical Political Consulting. The company buys data about Wisconsin...