Archives: Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Wisconsin Supreme Court substantially reduces a license suspension as recommended by the referee, despite the attorney not filing an appeal from the referee’s recommendation.

The Supreme Court overrode lying lawyer’s suspension in favor of a public reprimand.

As expected, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found a way to void the marriage when it issued its decision yesterday in Laubenheimer v. McLeod.

The decision of the Wisconsin SC was unanimous, apparently they all agree that a lawyer who had been disciplined on two prior occasions, committed 42 new violations affecting 12 clients and did not even bother to respond to the allegations should not have his license revoked.

Justice Abrahamson will likely be remembered as the judge who refused to step down.

An amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution regarding the method of determining the chief justice of the court.

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight segment on about judicial elections is a must watch! He makes all the relevant points, and with great humor. Much thanks to the Rev. David Lick (Hi David!) for forwarding this link to me in response to my post earlier today.

A good example of why electing judges is such a bad system.

Tina Dahle was found in violation of 55 counts of professional misconduct and her license was suspended. What does it take for the Wisconsin SC to revoke an attorney’s license?

Counts included two criminal convictions, one of them a felony. Amazingly, that did not result in a revocation of attorney’s license.