At its meeting Dec. 1, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Board of Governors heard reports on a pending Wisconsin Supreme Court rules petition on appeals from competency hearings and efforts to improve rural access to justice.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has added two cases to its docket. Cases involve whether Amazon delivery drivers qualify as “employees” for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits and the condemnation powers of municipal governments.
The 60-day deadline for ruling on a defendant’s answer to a forfeiture complaint begins to run only after the defendant has been convicted of a charge that was the basis for the forfeiture, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has ruled.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has ruled on public policy grounds that a hospital cannot be liable for a nurse’s alleged administration of medication to a patient before the patient gave informed consent.