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Court says judge's Facebook friendship created conflict

by Associated Press
| June 16, 2020 8:06 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a judge’s decision to become Facebook friends with a woman whose child custody case he was hearing created at least the appearance of bias, upholding a lower court's order that the case be re-heard by another judge.

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