Appealing Wisconsin

Or interesting stuff we couldn't get to otherwise. Coming to you straight from the documents themselves! Brief of appellant Case no:...

A pretrial defendant's dangerous is not a reason, under the state law governing competency, to order involuntary medication for the...

Or interesting stuff we couldn't get to otherwise. Coming to you straight from the documents themselves! Brief of appellant Case...

The circuit court noted that the state had a burden to show 'distinctly similar' laws from the time of the founding.

Even shorter than the case "briefs" I've been posting, these summaries - lifted straight from appeals documents - allow me to cover even...

The widow of a man killed by a Milwaukee County Transit System bus as he crossed the street deserves a new trial in her civil case "in...

"In brief" posts are shorter looks at interesting appellate filings. There are simply too many worthy cases to cover in full and these...

The mere possibility of identity theft is "insufficient to overcome the strong public interest in disclosure" of information about a...

The revelation that a Milwaukee police detective used a false confession to win a homicide case should be grounds for a new trial for a...

A Milwaukee County prosecutor who deliberately provoked a judge into finding him in contempt of court lost on Tuesday his bid to have...