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Marathon County Civil Cases for September 2025

I am still behind on this feature - there has been so much news! But we found a local hook to a story that’s going around. While the ACLU has filed a suit against Marathon and four other counties over ICE detentions, The Wausonian learned local public defenders had filed one of their own.

News broke this week about a lawsuit against Marathon County officials, along with those of four other counties, holding prisoners in custody at the behest of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

But The Wausonian uncovered another local lawsuit against Marathon County Sheriff Chad Billeb filed in September.