Weekly Case Digests – January 31, 2022 – February 4, 2022
Weekly Case Digests – January 31, 2022 - February 4, 2022
Involuntary Commitment and Medication
Tiffany appeals from an order extending her involuntary commitment and an order for involuntary medication and treatment, both entered pursuant to WIS. STAT. ch. 51.
Sex Offender Placement – Intervention
This chapter 980 commitment case began in 2001 with the filing of a petition in the circuit court requesting that Charles Montgomery be committed as a sexually violent person.
Order Correcting Opinion
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a correction was made to the heading in section II.C. on page 10 in the above-captioned opinion which was released on November 11, 2021.
De Novo Review – Property Survey
Lisa A. Riegleman Revocable Trust (“the Trust”) appeals a final judgment, entered following a bench trial, determining the northern boundary of property that it owns in Lisbon, Wisconsin (“the property”).
Claim Preclusion
Tissue Technology, LLC, appeals an order granting summary judgment and dismissing its third-party complaint against Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. (Nicolet).
Eviction – Writ of Restitution
In these consolidated matters, Carson D. Combs, pro se, appeals an order granting summary judgment in favor of his landlord, Lincoln Manor, in a civil lawsuit that Combs filed.
Sanctions – Summary Reversal of Appeal
Karin Nielsen appeals from an order of the circuit court in favor of Steggeman Investments, LLC, in this eviction action that Steggeman commenced against Nielsen on November 26, 2019.
Termination of Parental Rights
T.E.-P. appeals the order of the circuit court terminating her parental rights to her daughter, A.G. T.E.-P. contends that the circuit court erroneously exercised its discretion at the dispositional hearing when it found that it was in A.G.’s best interests to terminate T.E.-P.’s parental rights.
Abuse of Discretion – Plain Error
Alexis Reyes appeals a judgment convicting him, after a jury trial, of one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide as an act of domestic abuse and one count of first-degree reckless injury by use of a dangerous weapon.
Order Correcting Opinion
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that corrections were made to page twentynine in the above-captioned opinion which was released on November 9, 2021.
Statutory Interpretation – Limitation Act
Donald Sarter drowned after the vessel Monark #2 capsized in Lake Superior.
Legal News
- Wisconsin attorney loses law license, ordered to pay $16K fine
- Former Wisconsin police officer charged with 5 bestiality felony counts
- Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case
- Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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