Category Archives: Wisconsin Supreme Court

How a Case Gets to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

This article was authored by our managing attorney Kimberly Alderman and recently published in the Bi-Weekly Newsletter of the State Bar of Wisconsin. To read the full article including endnotes, click here. The majority of requests for review to the Wisconsin Supreme Court take the form of a petition for review, filed shortly after the […]

What is Original Jurisdiction?

Under normal circumstances, the pathway to a supreme court involves stops at a trial level court, and then an appellate level court. Because supreme court review is discretionary, many cases travel through the trial and appellate level courts, only to never achieve supreme court review. In a very limited number of cases, however, an action […]

What is a Request for Certification?

Sometimes, a case presents a matter of law that would be better answered by the courts of another state or jurisdiction. This often occurs when federal courts are asked to decide an issue that turns on state law. When this occurs, the reviewing court may ask a court within another jurisdiction or state to consider […]

Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Act 10 Appeal

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has announced it will hear oral arguments in Madison Teachers, Inc. v. Scott Walker, 12AP2067, on Monday, November 11, 2013. This case was sent up by certification from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals because of “its sweeping statewide effect on public employers, public employees, and taxpayers and because of the need […]