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Capitol Connection, September 2023 Issue

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WELCOME TO THE RUDER WARE CAPITOL SNAPSHOT - The ever-changing landscape of state government requires businesses across all industries to stay informed on the happenings in Madison. Welcome to Ruder Ware’s Capitol...more

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Capitol Snapshot, September 2023 Issue

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WELCOME TO THE RUDER WARE CAPITOL SNAPSHOT - - The ever-changing landscape of state government requires businesses across all industries to stay informed on the happenings in Madison. As such, our public affairs team...more

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Insurance Update - July 2023

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We bring you our July Insurance Update. We begin with two cases about late notice. First, the Kentucky Supreme Court considers whether the notice-prejudice rule applies to claims-made-and-reported policies. Second, the...more

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Wisconsin Arrest and Conviction Record Discrimination Protection – Part 2

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A prior article reviewed a decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court which dealt with the relationship between the workplace and an applicant’s prior domestic violence convictions (Cree, Inc., v. LIRC). This article will...more

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Current Issues Under an Old Law: Wisconsin’s Arrest and Conviction Record Protected Classification

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Although the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (WFEA) has included arrest and conviction record as a category protected from discrimination since 1977, a decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court last year demonstrates that the...more

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court Keeps Wisconsin Weird and Applies the Common Law in Its First Look at Wisconsin’s Product Liability...

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Murphy v. Columbus McKinnon Corp., 2022 WI 109 (Dec. 28, 2022), gave the Wisconsin Supreme Court its first opportunity to interpret Wis. Stat. § 895.047, part of the Wisconsin Legislature’s 2011 product liability statute....more

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Wisconsin Taxpayers Must Pay Property Taxes Before Filing a Refund Claim

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In November 2022, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin clarified the procedural requirements for taxpayers to challenge their property taxes. Although several taxpayers historically filed protective refund claims upon receipt of...more

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Top Developments - September 2022

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Pepsi-Cola Metro. Bottling Co. v. Emp’rs Ins. Co., 2022 Wisc. App. LEXIS 598 (Wisc. Ct. App. July 8, 2022) - Wisconsin Court of Appeals (in a divided decision) holds that a “post-loss” assignment of rights under a...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Clarifies When a Conviction is Substantially Related to An Individual’s Employment

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In a case in which Quarles & Brady’s Bob Duffy and Lindsey Davis were honored to represent Cree, Inc. (“Cree”), on March 10, 2022 the Wisconsin Supreme Court provided long awaited and important guidance concerning when an...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Strengthens Employers Defenses in Some Arrest and Conviction Record Discrimination Cases

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently released its decision in Cree, Inc. v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, overturning long-established precedent regarding when an applicant with a domestic violence conviction record...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Overturns Exception for Domestic Violence Crimes Under ‘Substantially Related’ Defense to Discrimination...

On March 10, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released its decision in Cree, Inc. v. Labor and Industry Review Commission, which provides significant clarity for employers evaluating whether a domestic-related crime of an...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Confirms Approach to Evaluating Domestic Violence Conviction Record and Employment Obligations

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On March 10, 2022, in the case Cree Inc. v. Labor and Industry Review Commission (Cree), the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a 4-3 opinion holding that the employer’s recission of a job offer based on a domestic violence...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Eases the Burden for Employers Defending Arrest and Conviction Record Discrimination Claims Under State...

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The Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (WFEA) prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of their arrest and conviction records. Generally, an employer cannot make decisions on the basis...more

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Of Cars and Dwellings: Supreme Court of Wisconsin Expands the Meaning of “Dwelling,” Jeopardizing Vehicle Repossessions in the...

As the new year turns the page, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in Duncan v. Asset Recovery Specialists, Inc., held that a repo agency violated the Wisconsin Consumer Act by repossessing a vehicle parked in the borrower’s...more

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Recent Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision Clarifies Parameters for Self-Help Repossessions

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Key points: •The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent decision in Duncan v. Asset Recovery Specialists, 2022 WI 1, provides a clarifying interpretation of provisions of the Wisconsin Consumer Act (WCA) relating to...more

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LIRC’s View of the ‘Substantially Related’ Defense to Arrest and Conviction Record Discrimination Claims: Will Recent Events in...

Wisconsin is one of a limited number of states that prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of arrest or conviction records. The Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (WFEA) protects “properly qualified individuals” from...more

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Religious Institutions Update: July 2021

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Ministerial Exception Doctrine Bars Minister-on-Minister Hostile Work Environment Claim In Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Calumet City, No. 19-2142, 2021 WL 2880232 (7th Cir. July 9, 2021), the U.S. Court of...more

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Insurance Update - July 2021

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Appellate courts have been busy the last few weeks deciding a wide swath of insurance issues. The Eighth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to weigh in on pandemic-related business interruption claims. ...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Limits Tort Claims Related to Conduct Following Worker’s Compensation Injury

On May 20, 2021, the Wisconsin Supreme Court limited the tort claims an employee may bring based on alleged conduct that occurred between injuries covered under the state’s workers’ compensation law. The opinion in Graef v....more

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Seventh Circuit Confronts Wisconsin’s “Risk-Contribution” Theory in Reversing $6 Million Lead Paint Verdict

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The back-and-forth between Wisconsin’s legislature and its supreme court created a unique six-year window from 2005-2011 when plaintiffs could sue manufacturers of white lead carbonate, a substance formerly used in some...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, April 2021 # 2

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In Washington: On April 13, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention and Federal Drug Administration (FDA) paused the production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women participants in the U.S. developed...more

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Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 7

Welcome to this seventh issue of the 2021 edition of Unprecedented. There is a lot of good news around the COVID-19 pandemic. Easter weekend saw the United States mark another vaccination milestone, with 4 million doses...more

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Supreme Court of Wisconsin Ends State Mask Mandate on March 31

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Yesterday, March 31, 2021, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ended the state-wide mask mandate after finding Executive Order (EO) #105 to be unlawful, ending it immediately.  Governor Tony Evers issued EO #105 shortly after the...more

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling Underlines Importance of Having an IP Strategy When Selling Assets of a Business

In Ritter v. Farrow, 2018 AP 1518 (WI S. Ct. 2/23/21), the Wisconsin Supreme Court addressed Wisconsin trademark law in the context of the sale of a resort management business. Applying the principle that trademarks and their...more

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Collecting Overpayments from Medicaid Providers

Today we want to address a topic that many state Medicaid agencies will no doubt be thinking about in the coming months, as the COVID-caused pandemic continues to threaten state finances and Congress has somewhat tied states’...more

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