12-2273 Appleton Papers Inc. v. EPA
2011AP1825-CR State v. Shannon
2011AP518-CR State v. Xiong
2011AP2410-CR State v. Richardson
A client may tremble with fear or fume with annoyance when asked to produce electronic data but it’s up to the legal support team to talk the client down from the ledge.
2011AP699-CR State v. Lock
2011AP2356 Andersen v. Monco Law Offices
2011AP1550-CR State v. Lesueur
2011AP2864-CRAC State v. Johnson
Discovery disputes typically come to the forefront of most bad faith litigation.
10-3849 Brown v. Columbia Sussex Corp.
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Here’s a word of caution for lawyers who use Twitter professionally: If you part ways with your firm, your ex-employer may get custody of your Tweets.
10-C-0951 Metso Minerals Industries, Inc., v. Johnson Crushers International, Inc.
Civil Procedure
Discovery; sanctions
Civil Procedure
Discovery
Criminal Procedure
Right to counsel; discovery; ineffective assistance; venue; new trials
Motor Vehicles
OWI; discovery
Criminal Procedure
Discovery; speedy trial
Civil Procedure Discovery; foreign courts Where a party made no showing that an application for discovery for use in a foreign proceeding was abusive, the application was improperly denied. “The importance of American-style discovery to Heraeus’s ability to prove misappropriation of its trade secrets by Biomet is undeniable. But potential for abuse? We don’t see [...]
Criminal Procedure Discovery; in camera inspections Saterus Glass appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on his no contest plea to two counts of being a party to the crime of burglary and from a judgment of conviction of first-degree sexual assault of a child, incest with a child, and second-degree sexual assault entered on [...]
Criminal Procedure Discovery; DNA testing Roy James Jones, pro se, appeals from circuit court orders denying two postconviction motions, which sought new DNA testing of certain evidence. The circuit court denied the first motion because Jones refused to turn over the results of private DNA testing that his attorney commissioned before trial, meaning Jones failed [...]
Civil Procedure Discovery; open records A Wisconsin municipality cannot get a stay of discovery, where the requested materials are subject to the open records law. “The case law uniformly refuses to define requests for access to federal or state public records under public-records laws (such as the federal Freedom of Information Act and state public [...]
Criminal Procedure Discovery; IDA; speedy trial; ineffective assistance Edward Anderson, pro se, appeals from an order denying his Wis. Stat. § 974.06 (2007-08) motion. Anderson contends the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion in denying the motion without a hearing. We agree with the circuit court’s decision and affirm the order. This opinion will not [...]
Civil Procedure Discovery; sanctions It was not an abuse of discretion not to preclude an insurer from contesting coverage as a sanction for not producing the policy in response to discover requests. “While the circuit court did not make an express determination on whether or not the conduct of Acuity was egregious, it is evident [...]
