Published: March 17, 2010
Tags: 9to5, lawsuit, Sheehan, sick leave, Supreme Court
By Sean Ryan
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the lawsuit over Milwaukee’s sick leave law.
A state court of appeals in February refused to issue an opinion on the lawsuit, and instead asked the supreme court to decide the case.
The lawsuit is between the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, which opposes the sick leave law, [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: City Council, District IV Court of Appeals, Dodgeville, Dodgeville City Council, Edwin James, Hocking, lawsuit, Murphy Desmond Lawyers SC, Schmit, Supreme Court, Trachtenberg, Van Horn, Wallace Rogers, Wisconsin Supreme Court
By Paul Snyder
A homeowner’s 18-year pursuit of payback from Dodgeville has reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will decide if Glen Hocking filed his water runoff lawsuit four years too late.
Supreme Court justices Wednesday will hear oral arguments in a four-year-old lawsuit filed by Hocking against Dodgeville over a 1992 residential subdivision project.
Hocking sued Dodgeville [...]
Published: February 18, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, DNA, Great Lakes, Supreme Court
Comments: 1
By JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Government officials and Illinois businesses are overstating the economic pain that would result from closing Chicago-area shipping locks to block the Asian carp’s path to the Great Lakes, two transportation specialists said Thursday.
Costs of transporting and handling cargo on Chicago waterways would rise by about $70 [...]
Published: February 18, 2010
Tags: 9to5, appeals court, Building Solutions, Macejkovic, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, MMAC, referendum, sick leave, Steve Baas, Supreme Court, Wisconsin Court of Appeals District 1
By Sean Ryan
Building Service Inc. will move about two miles west to Menomonee Falls if Milwaukee’s sick leave law takes effect.
“We lease our building,” said James Macejkovic, executive vice president of the Milwaukee-based contractor. “We’ve done a search, and we’ve got options that are available. And if we have to, we’ll pull the trigger.”
Macejkovic will [...]
Those familiar with the term “carpe diem” know that it’s Latin for “seize the day.”
It’s time we twist that phrase and instead seize the carp — the huge Asian carp threatening to pillage the Great Lakes ecosystem.
Asian carp started escaping decades ago from fish farms. They spread during floods and have infiltrated the manmade Chicago [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is joining the effort to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
Van Hollen filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday supporting Michigan’s request for an injunction to close a Chicago canal that connects Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River basin. The [...]
Published: December 21, 2009
Tags: condo, condominium, Larson, Pacific, Saddle Ridge, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Supreme Court, The Saddle Ridge Corp., Trupke, Wisconsin Realtors Association
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Developers stand to lose no matter which way the state Supreme Court rules in a case prompted by a condominium project in the town of Pacific.
The outcome of the lawsuit, which the court accepted Monday, will affect multiphase or incomplete condominium developments. The court will decide who pays property taxes on vacant land [...]
By JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to sever a century-old connection between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system to prevent Asian carp from invading the lakes and endangering their $7 billion fishery.
State Attorney General Mike Cox filed a lawsuit with the nation’s [...]
By DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.
The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference that the United [...]
Published: November 4, 2009
Tags: Barrett, Doyle, gay rights, Indian, Obama, Senate, Supreme Court, tribes, Wisconsin Family Action
Wis. Supreme Court rejects gay rights challenge
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has refused to directly take up a challenge to Wisconsin’s domestic partner registry, a move gay rights advocates touted Wednesdaytype:italic; as a triumph for same-sex couples.
A conservative group named Wisconsin Family Action said the registry violated the state’s constitutional ban on [...]
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