Charges of defying law, building ‘straw man’ written in split Supreme Court opinion
A split Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a decision on a subject-matter-jurisdiction dispute relating to an OWI case from Ozaukee County.
Civil Procedure — subject matter jurisdiction
11-2097 & 11-2185 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 50 v. Kienstra Precast LLC
11-C0171 Williams v. C&D Technologies, Inc.
Civil Procedure Subject matter jurisdiction
2010AP1542 State v. Burkart
Criminal Procedure Personal jurisdiction; subject matter jurisdiction Kray Burkart, pro se, appeals a default judgment, convicting him of forfeiture harassment. Burkart alleges the circuit court lacked subject matter and personal jurisdiction, and the complaint violated his constitutional rights. We affirm. This opinion will not be published. 2010AP1542 State v. Burkart Dist III, Marathon County, [...]
2008AP2587 & 2009AP739 Dustardy H. v. Bethany H.
Civil Procedure Legal errors; subject matter jurisdiction A court’s subject matter jurisdiction is not affected by its errors of law. “Wisconsin’s artificial insemination statute creates a presumption that a husband whose wife is artificially inseminated with semen donated by another man is the ‘natural father’ of the child. Wis. Stat. § 891.40(1). For obvious reason[...]
10-CV 932 Landmark Credit Union v. Doberstein
Civil Procedure Subject matter jurisdiction; CFAA Merely accessing and disseminating information from a protected computer does not suffice to create a cause of action under the Computer Fraud Abuse Act. “[T]here are several fatal flaws with the core of the federal claim, the allegation that Doberstein ‘intentionally accessed a protected computer without authorization’ and ‘[...]
2010AP540, 2010AP541 State v. Derksen
Motor Vehicles Subject matter jurisdiction Roy Derksen was cited for improperly transporting a building on a highway, contrary to Wis. Stat. § 346.924 (2007-08), operating a motor vehicle with an overall height in excess of 13 1/2 feet without a permit, contrary to Wis. Stat. § 348.06(1), and operating a vehicle having a total width […]
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