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Judge's Facebook friendship upends Wisconsin custody case

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 12:03 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, the first case of its kind in the state and one that could test the boundaries of social media use by judges.

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