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Supreme Court to take on 5 new cases

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//July 9, 2015//

Supreme Court to take on 5 new cases

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//July 9, 2015//

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has accepted five new cases. The court declined to review 77 other petitions for review.

The cases, according to an announcement Wednesday, come from Dane, Winnebago, Milwaukee and Jefferson counties.

The court will review:

  1. In re the marriage of: Nancy Meister and Jay Meister: S.A.M, et al vs. Nancy Meister, which examines whether the grandparent visitation statute requires a grandmother to show she has a relationship with her grandchildren similar to a parent-child relationship before the court can give her visitation rights.
  2. State vs. Smith, a criminal case in which a jury in 2009 found a man guilty of second-degree sexual assault. The justices will examine whether the Court of Appeals engaged in fact-finding or made a correction to an error.
  3. Coyne vs. Walker, a case to decide whether rulemaking power given to the governor in 2011 is unconstitutional as applied to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The case involves a dispute between a group of parents whose children attend public school and Gov. Scott Walker’s administration over the rulemaking authority of the superintendent.
  4. State vs. Parisi, to decide whether the recently established “good faith exception” to the exclusionary rule applies to testing blood for drugs. The court recently determined that the exception applied when police drew blood to be tested for alcohol without a warrant.
  5. DOJ vs. DWD, a whistleblower case in which the court will review whether state whistleblower statutes extend to a state Department of Justice employee who expressed her belief that sending Division of Criminal Investigation agents with then-Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to the 2008 National Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn., violated Office of State Employee Relations policy and misused state resources.

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