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    The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest appellate court in Wisconsin. The Supreme Court has jurisdiction over original actions, appeals from lower courts...
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    The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Milwaukee...
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    The 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to elect a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term...
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    the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The most recent legislative redistricting occurred in February 2024, when governor Tony Evers signed 2023 Wisconsin Act 94...
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  • Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under...
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    have served or are currently serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Initially, Wisconsin's Supreme Court was just composed of the five judges of the...
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    announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone...
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    Janet Protasiewicz (category Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    jurist from Wisconsin who has served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since August 2023. Protasiewicz was elected to the court in the 2023...
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    Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission was a December 2023 decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court which struck down the state Senate and Assembly district...
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    Jennifer Dorow (category Wisconsin state court judges)
    coverage. Following that trial, Dorow ran for a vacant seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but was eliminated in the primary. Jennifer Dorow was born Jennifer...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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  • Loomis v. Wisconsin, 881 N.W.2d 749 (Wis. 2016), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 2290 (2017), was a Wisconsin Supreme Court case that was appealed to the United...
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    University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. After the collective bargaining bill was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on June...
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    judge who served as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice from August 1, 2016, through July 31, 2020. He was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker...
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  • Kizer from raising the affirmative defense. In a 4-3 opinion, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the law provided trafficking victims with an affirmative...
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  • Since a 1977 amendment, Wisconsin's constitution, in Section 11 of Article VII, also allows for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to censure, suspend, or remove...
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    Diane S. Sykes (category Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1999 to 2004. Sykes graduated...
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    Ann Walsh Bradley (category Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    the longest currently-serving justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015...
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    held April 7, 2020. This election featured a contested race for Wisconsin Supreme Court and the presidential preference primary for both major political...
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  • Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that enhanced penalties for hate crimes do not violate...
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  • Jefferson v. Dane County, Wisconsin, on December 14, 2020. On December 14, 2020, a petition was filed in the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Mark Jefferson and...
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    Shirley Abrahamson (category Chief Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    was the 25th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. An American lawyer and jurist, she was appointed to the court in 1976 by Governor Patrick Lucey...
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    Patience D. Roggensack (category Chief Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    She was the 26th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (2015–2021), and served 20 years on the high court, from 2003 through 2023. Roggensack was...
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  • Jill Karofsky (category Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court)
    who has served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 2020. Karofsky served as a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge in Dane County from 2017 until...
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    of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving since 2015. She has been a state judge in Wisconsin since 2012. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor...
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    Supreme Court trying to avoid "tie outcomes". Politics portal 2011 Wisconsin protests 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 Recall elections in Wisconsin Wisconsin Supreme...
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    created in August 1978 to alleviate the Wisconsin Supreme Court's rising number of appellate cases. Published Court of Appeals opinions are considered binding...
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  • Representative Charles V. Bardeen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court Robert Barnett, attorney Tom Barrett,...
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    court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may hear both appeals from lower courts and original actions. In addition to deciding cases, the Supreme Court is responsible...
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