Scott Bauer

July 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MADISON, Wis. AP - The Wisconsin Supreme Court may have blown a $265 million hole into the state budget on Friday.And state lawmakers may have to cancel their summer vacations and campaign plans to come back to balance the books by raising taxes, cutting services, borrowing money or some other accounting maneuver.

By SCOTT BAUER

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March 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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August 02, 2011 | Law.com

By Scott Bauer

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December 26, 2007 | Law.com

Wisconsin and other states either don't know who is buying cigarettes over the Internet and not paying state taxes, or they know and don't go after the culprits. Tracking down who bought what, and determining how much they owe, is a loophole that anti-smoking advocates and others want to see closed. The issue becomes even more important as states like Wisconsin continue to ratchet up their cigarette taxes, often earmarking the money to pay for rising health care costs.

By Scott Bauer

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June 01, 2006 | Law.com

A petition drive is calling for the resignation of the Nebraska judge who sentenced a sex offender to probation instead of prison in part because of his short stature. The campaign is aimed at Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava, who last week sentenced Richard W. Thompson to 10 years intensive probation instead of prison on two felony child sexual assault charges. Cecava said at the sentencing hearing that she did not believe the 5-foot, 1-inch Thompson could survive in prison.

By Scott Bauer

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June 16, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

An epic battle between comic book titans will be continued as a judge struggles to decide whether artist Todd McFarlane owes author Neil Gaiman for three characters in the classic Spawn series about a murdered CIA agent who becomes a demon.

By Scott Bauer

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May 26, 2006 | Law.com

A Nebraska judge has stirred up controversy with her decision to sentence a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child to probation rather than jail time because she feared that the 5-foot-1-inch man was too short to survive in prison. The judge's reasoning was criticized by legislators and child advocates, and confounded the legal director of the state chapter of the ACLU, who said, "I have never heard of anything like this before."

By Scott Bauer

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December 06, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a nearly $533,000 award to Marathon County dairy farmers who claimed a power company's stray voltage hurt their cows' milk production.

By SCOTT BAUER

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