Wisconsin Supreme Court Decisions 2019
Date: December 26, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000880-W
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals imposing laches and denying Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that this Court will not revisit its ruling that the State may assert…
Date: December 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001823
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held in this case that Wisconsin law required an administrative agency to promulgate a rule containing a new statutory interpretation that prohibited the owner of a roadside sign from remedying a…
Date: December 18, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001263-D
Date: December 17, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001720-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's order vacating Defendant's 1996 judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, party to a crime,…
Date: December 2, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001894-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court suppressing the victim's identification of Defendant, holding that State v. Dubose, 699 N.W.2d 582 (Wis. 2005),…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Numbers: 2017AP000914-CR, 2017AP000913-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversed the judgment of the circuit court dismissing without prejudice criminal complaints against Autumn Lopez and Amy Rodriguez charging them with a…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001104-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming both Defendant's judgment of conviction and the denial of his motion to suppress, holding that the court of appeals did not err in determining…
Date: November 12, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001416-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order denying Defendant's postconviction motion, holding that the circuit court properly exercised adult court criminal…
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number: 2019AP000543-D
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number: 2019AP000900-D
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number: 2019AP001426-D
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number: 2010AP001939-D
Date: September 24, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP002347-D
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number: 2019AP001207-D
Date: July 9, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP000628-J
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the judicial misconduct of the Honorable Leonard D. Kachinsky, a former municipal judge for the Village of Fox Crossing Municipal Court, warranted a three-year suspension of eligibility for…
Date: July 3, 2019
Docket Number: 2014AP002528-D
Date: July 2, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001518-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's judgment granting Defendant's motion to suppress a test of Defendant's blood sample, holding that the State lawfully obtained…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP000656
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the court of appeals dismissing the appeal of an order of the circuit court denying a request to compel arbitration and stay a pending lawsuit pending arbitration, holding that a…
Date: June 27, 2019
Docket Numbers: 2017AP000013, 2016AP002503
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court striking two insurance conditions from a conditional use permit (CUP) Dane County issued to Enbridge Energy…
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP002278-OA
Justia Opinion Summary: In this original action brought by Plaintiffs, two licensed teachers and two school board members, against the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) arguing that, prior…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 2019AP000559
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the order of the circuit court declaring the Wisconsin Legislature's December 2018 extraordinary session unconstitutional, enjoining enforcement of all legislation passed during the session, and…
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP000375-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea, holding that the disciplining of Defendant's attorney for professional misconduct that included his…
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001593
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's grant of summary judgment dismissing Plaintiff's claims against the Village of Stetsonville for negligence and private…
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP001837
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment dismissing Rural Mutual Insurance Company's subrogation claims pursuant to a…
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001214-W
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001296-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals denying Defendant's petition for a supervisory writ in which Defendant argued that an automatic stay in his case began upon the circuit court's entry of a…
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001468
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals granting Waukesha County's motion to dismiss the appeal brought by Ms. L. challenging the circuit court's judgment extending Ms. L's commitment, holding…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000739
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals affirming an order of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant, a medical doctor, on Plaintiffs' claim…
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001346-CQ
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered a question certified to it from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, holding that Wis. Stat. 943.10(1m)(a)-(f) identifies alternative means of committing one element of…
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002058-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's denial of Appellant's postconviction motion, holding that, as a matter of first impression, Miranda warnings are not required…
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001269
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's order that determined that Plaintiffs' claims against Defendant-insurance company were barred by…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002334
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Hiscox Insurance Company on Leicht Transfer & Storage Company's complaint…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000741-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the order of the circuit court denying Petitioner's postconviction motion to withdraw his guilty plea, holding that the circuit court's plea…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001206-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming a jury verdict convicting Defendant of armed robbery and operating a vehicle without the owner's consent and affirming the denial of Defendant's…
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP000203-W
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals summarily denying as untimely Appellant's petition for habeas corpus seeking reinstatement of his right to file a direct appeal, holding that neither the…
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001142
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the order of the circuit court granting a petition for grandparent visitation over the objection of two fit parents, holding that the Grandparent Visitation Statute, Wis. Stat. 767.43(3), as…
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000170
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court dismissing Steven Tikalsky's "constructive trust" count as against Terry Stevens, holding that a constructive…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001574
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals dismissing J.W.K.'s appeal challenging the sufficiency of the evidence extending his commitment, holding that J.W.K.'s sufficiency challenge was…
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001033-J
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court ordered that Racine County Circuit Court Judge Michael J. Piontek be suspended from the office of circuit judge without compensation and prohibited from exercising any of the powers or duties of a…
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP002021
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's denial of the Town of Rib Mountain's action seeking a declaration that Marathon County lacked the authority to establish a…
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000141-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order denying Appellant's motion for early termination of probation, holding that the circuit court did not have inherent…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP000493
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's dismissal of Plaintiffs' claims alleging mismanagement of their retirement benefits, holding that, despite the court of…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000344
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of Plaintiff's complaint against Armslist, LLC, holding that because all of Plaintiff's claims for relief required Armslist to be treated as the publisher or…
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP002006-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's order granting Defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a search of Defendant's vehicle during a traffic stop, holding that none of the officer's questions or…
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002296
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals upholding the circuit court's dismissal of Petitioner's inverse condemnation claim against Respondent based on Petitioner's noncompliance with Wis. Stat.…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001408
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order granting Security Finance's (Security) motion to dismiss Brian Kirsch's (Kirsch) counterclaims against Security under…
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000684-AC
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's orders granting the City of Whitehalls' motion to dismiss the Town of Lincoln's action challenging the City's annexation of a…
Date: April 2, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000146
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case brought by two members of an LLC against another member after the LLC sold valuable assets to a company owned by the defendant, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court denying the…
Date: March 28, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002258-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the order of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to withdraw his plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect (NGI), holding…
Date: March 26, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002491
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the MacLeish children's claim against the Boardman law firm for legal malpractice, holding that Charles MacLeish's clear testamentary intent was not thwarted by any alleged…
Date: March 20, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000631
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court granting Defendant’s motion for summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ complaint claiming entitlement to unpaid wages…
Date: March 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP001525
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court interpreted Milwaukee County General Ordinance 201.24(4.1) to mean that employees not covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) were entitled to the benefit of the “Rule of 75” if…
Date: March 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000850-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the circuit court convicting Defendant of first-degree intentional homicide for shooting Dale Meister, the father of his granddaughter, and sentencing him to life in prison…
Date: March 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001618-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the order of the circuit court declaring Wis. Stat. 165.95(1)(a) and (3)(c) unconstitutional as applied to Defendant, holding that circuit court erred in declaring the statute unconstitutional.…
Date: March 14, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000516
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the circuit court sustaining the the Board of Review for the Town of Delafield’s reclassification of two lots of land owned by…
Date: March 12, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP001337-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals remanding this case to the circuit court with directions to amend Defendant’s judgment of conviction to reflect the sentence credit Defendant requested for…
Date: March 7, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP000880
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the circuit court denying the State’s motion to recall A.L.’s juvenile delinquency proceedings, holding that the court of appeals…
Date: February 28, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000909
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals ruling that the allegations in Abbott Laboratories’ complaint against Ixthus Medical Supply, Inc. alleged a potentially covered advertising injury and, as a…
Date: February 26, 2019
Docket Number: 1996AP001300-D
Date: February 26, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP000520-D
Date: February 21, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP000291-W
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the circuit court ordering the arbitration of a private construction dispute stayed, holding that the circuit court lacked the authority to issue the order staying the…
Date: February 19, 2019
Docket Number: 2015AP001370-D
Date: February 19, 2019
Docket Numbers: 2017AP001414, 2017AP001413
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the termination of Father’s parental rights and remanded this case to the circuit court to conduct a new trial, holding that denying a defendant…
Date: February 7, 2019
Docket Number: 2015AP001083-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed as modified the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court’s denial of Appellant’s postconviction motion, holding that trial counsel did not provide ineffective assistance and…
Date: January 31, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP002259
Justia Opinion Summary: In this longstanding dispute over which adjoining landowner must pay to construct and maintain partition fencing between their properties the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals, holding that the…
Date: January 29, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP000636
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals’ decision affirming the circuit court’s dismissal of Koss Corporation’s claim that Park Bank acted in bad faith in processing transactions initiated by Sujata Sachdeva and…
Date: January 25, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP001631
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court’s grant of summary judgment to Steadfast Insurance Company giving Steadfast the right to recover…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP001517
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals, holding that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) did not have the authority to unilaterally amend the pier permit of Philip and Terrie…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 2017AP000140
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court’s order dismissing Petitioner’s complaint against the Village of Sister Bay alleging that some…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 2018AP001478-D
Date: January 4, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP000801
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court’s denial of summary judgment to the City of New Berlin and the New Berlin Parks and Recreation Department (collectively, New…
Date: January 4, 2019
Docket Number: 2016AP001541-CR
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court’s restitution order of $8,487.41 against Defendant for losses caused by his burglary of a residence, holding that the circuit…
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