By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//June 30, 2016//
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted to accept seven new cases.
The justices voted this month to accept cases from Wauksha, Dane, Ozaukee, Milwaukee and Sheboygan counties, according to a news release Thursday. The high court declined to review 60 other cases.
Of the seven cases, two came from appellate courts, one was a petition for a supervisory writ and the remaining three stemmed from a party’s petitioning the high court for review. Supervisory writs let the high court use its power to directly control lower courts in matters involving non-discretionary functions that may harm an appellant.
The justice will take up the following cases:
The justices have also agreed to decide in Universal Processing v. Circuit Court of Milwaukee whether a trial court overstepped its authority in appointing a referee to handle pretrial matters in a business-contract dispute between an independent contractor and a firm that provides processing services for bank cards. Follow @erikastrebel