Sunday, February 24, 2019

Wisconsin appellate court week February 25th-March 1st 2019

Events | Courts last week | Courts this week

Upcoming Federalist Society events include

February 25th Rick Esenberg of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, "Is Our First Freedom in Danger?" at the Milwaukee Club, presented by Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter (details and registration)

March 15th-16th "The Resurgence of Economic Liberty" Federalist Society National Student Symposium, Arizona State Student Chapter, Phoenix (details and registration)

March 19th " The State of Wisconsin's Administrative State" Seminar presented by the Madison Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project and the WMC Foundation (details and registration)

March 20th "On the Wisconsin Department of Justice", Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel, former Attorney General, and Misha Tseytlin of Troutman Sanders LLP, former Solicitor General, moderator Steven Biskupic of Biskupic & Jacobs S.C., former U.S. Attorney, at Westmoor Country Club in Brookfield, presented by Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter (save the date)

May 6th Richard Brookhiser, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, presented by Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, and the National Review Institute (save the date)

June 20th Rachel Barkow of New York University School of Law, presented by Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter (save the date)

More events at our Calendar page


Supplement to last week

Board Discusses Potential OLR Rule Changes, Proposed State Bar Budget, WisBar News

State Bar Response to Criminal Justice Budget Initiative, Rotunda Report, State Bar of Wisconsin

Wisconsin Supreme Court accepts two new cases, Wisconsin Court System

Wisconsin Supreme Court oral argument
- State v. Schwind, 2017AP141-CR
- Maple Grove Country Club Inc. v. Maple Grove Estates Sanitary District, 2016AP2296
- Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Wagner, 2014AP2528-D
audio/video, Wisconsin Eye


This week:

Here are the lists of the Wisconsin Court System's links to:

as they are posted.

Supreme Court pending cases and pending disciplinary complaints include those scheduled for oral argument:

Dates set aside for arguments but to which specific cases have not yet been scheduled can be found on the Yearly Oral Argument Schedule - 2018/2019 Term.

Next conferences on pending petitions for review are

Pending rules petitions (none currently scheduled for hearing or conference)

The Court of Appeals has oral argument scheduled for


U.S. Supreme Court 2018 Term:
Argument for
- February 2019 (February 18th-27th)
- March 2019 (March 18-27, 2019)
- April 2019 (April 15-22, 2019)
Latest slip opinions

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit: this week's Opinions and Unpublished Orders