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Daily Bread for 9.4.22: Wisconsin Lawyers Under Fire for Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will see a mix of clouds and sunshine with high of 70. Sunrise is 6:23 AM and sunset 7:23 PM for 12h 59m 32s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.4% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 476, Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims…

America, Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Cruelty, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, Mendacity

Daily Bread for 8.9.22: The Alex Jones Verdict

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:55 AM and sunset 8:04 PM for 14h 08m 55s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 90.4% of its visible disk illuminated.   Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 6 PM.   On this day in 1974, as a direct…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Culture, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, Social Media

Daily Bread for 6.12.22: What Depp v. Heard May Mean for #MeToo

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 18m 18s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1899, the New Richmond Tornado devastates that small Wisconsin community: On…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, Daily Bread, Education, Harassment, Indolence, Law, Litigation, Misconduct, University, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.15.21: From UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Too Many and Too Few Words

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55.  Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 6:11 PM for 11h 01m 35s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 74.4% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1956, FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the…

Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, Public Health, School District

Daily Bread for 10.12.21: Parent of sick student sues after Waukesha School District ends many pandemic mitigation efforts

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69.  Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 6:16 PM for 11h 10m 01s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM, and the city’s Public Works Committee meets at…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, University, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.8.21: Ex-student Stephanie Vander Pas sues for failure of UW-Whitewater to protect her and others from sexual harassment by former chancellor’s husband

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 72.  Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:22 PM for 11h 21m 22s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1871, fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin: Peshtigo, Wisconsin was devastated by a…

Foxconn, Litigation

Private Developer Sues Foxconn, Others Over Failure to Build as Promised

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Richard Torres reports Lawsuit says Foxconn’s failure to create a high-tech screen plant cost local governments hundreds of millions of dollars: Foxconn Technology Group is in breach of contract for failing to construct a high-tech screen plant in Mount Pleasant, while local governments spent hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the project, according to…

Law, Litigation, Newspapers

Demand Letters

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A demand letter is an attorney’s formal request on behalf of a client for either money or action from a third party. Demand letters can be sent before or after a lawsuit is filed. Although these letters typically demand an amount of money, they can also ask for actions including apologies or retractions for a…

Blogging, Law, Liberty, Litigation, Newspapers, Press, Public Records 2, Wisconsin

Public Records Requests as Pre-Litigation Actions

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Wisconsinites submitting public records requests under the law (Wis. Stat. §§ 19.31 et seq.) may do so for any number of reasons (and need not declare a motivation of any sort). Not everyone will have the same aims in mind. For someone who’s a publisher (newspaper, magazine, blogger), however, a sensible way to look at…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Litigation, Nepotism, Sexual Harassment, That Which Paved the Way, University, UW System

The Limits of an Institutional Deal

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Yesterday, UW-Whitewater Chancellor Beverly Kopper announced that she was resigning her position as of 12.31.18.  Later in the day, the UW System publicly announced that Kopper would be on leave at her former salary for eight months, and then in the fall have the option of returning to UW-Whitewater’s Psychology Department as a professor.  See…