Media Matters: How to Become a Highly Quotable Source

David M. Freedman and Paula Levis Suita in Law Practice

How do you react when you see other lawyers repeatedly quoted as authorities in the media? You probably feel some admiration and even some envy. You might ask yourself, as many others do, "How can I get quoted like that?"

Governor Doyle Seeks Applicants for Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judicial Vacancy

The new appointment will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Court of Appeals Judge David Deininger. The new judge will begin serving upon appointment.

Applications are due December 13, 2006.

Appellate Opinions Released November 30, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending the following for publication.

State v. Basley (defendant's motion to withdraw his no contest plea may not be denied without an evidentiary hearing).

Hottenroth v. Hetsko (withdrawal from stipulations in a divorce proceeding).

Hoekstra v. Guardian Pipeline, LLC (evidence of comparable sales in condemnation proceeding is not the only admissible evidence in determining fair market value of property taken for the purpose of installing a natural gas pipeline; seller is not required to disclose all possible hazards associated with a characteristic of a property, just the existence of the characteristic that could create a hazard; "unit rule" made evidence of damage to trees on taken property irrelevant in determining just compensation; evidence related to fear, stigma and safety issues involving natural gas pipelines not admissible in determining just compensation).

The Borchardt Loving Trust v. Guardian Pipeline, LLC (same case as Hoekstra).

Julie Sitor Living Trust v. Guardian Pipeline, LLC (same case as Hoekstra).

Holiday Events and Displays in the State Capitol

The Wisconsin Department of Administration issued a press releas [2 pp. pdf] listing

holiday events and displays that will be in the State Capitol Rotunda throughout December

Though not specifed in the press release, December 25 is a holiday, Wis. Stat. §995.20.

(via The Wheeler Report)

National Convention 2006 audio

The Federalist Society is posting audio [mp3] of presentations from the November 16-18, 2006 National Lawyers Convention.

The Supreme Court Clarifies 'Kontowicz' and the Accrual Date for §628.46 Interest

by Colleen D. Ball, Wisconsin Civil Trial Journal

Appellate Opinions Released November 29, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending neither of them for publication.

Battle Of The Class-Action Titans

Daniel Fisher reports at Forbes.

The lead plaintiff in a politically tinged securities lawsuit against Halliburton has taken the unusual step of asking the court to replace class-action king William Lerach with equally famous litigator David Boies as lead attorney on the case.

In a motion filed last week with a federal court in Dallas, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund (AMS) said its relationship with Lerach’s San Diego firm has “deteriorated to the point that substitution of new counsel is required.” The charity proposed placing the litigation under the control of Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

(via Get Up, and Get Moving....)

Interview With Chief Justice Roberts

From an interview of Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts by ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg.

CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Now during your hearings, you said that you didn't think courts should solve all of society's problems, that they should have a more restrained view. Why not? You've got these smart people, you're up there on the bench and some of these are really hard questions.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, you know, it gets back to something I mentioned earlier about last week when we voted. Think back to the framers who drafted the Constitution. These were people who literally risked everything to gain the right to govern themselves, certainly risked all their material well-being and risked their lives in the struggle for independence.

And the thought that the first thing they would do when they got around to drafting a Constitution would be to say, 'Let's take all the hard issues in our society and let's turn them over to nine unelected people who aren't politically accountable and let them decide,' that would have been the farthest thing from their mind.

I have enormous respect for the authority carried by the people across the street in Congress. Hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people have voted for them and put their confidence in their judgment.

Not a single person has voted for me and if we don't like what the people in Congress do, we can get rid of them, and if you don't like what I do, it's kind of too bad. And that is, to me, an important constraint. It means that I'm not there to make a judgment based on my personal policy preferences or my political preferences.

The only reason I'm protected from those political pressures is because I'm supposed to make a decision based on the law. And so I don't think it would be a good idea to turn all the hard issues over to the courts. Those hard issues belong in Congress, they belong in the Executive Branch.

The courts have the responsibility to make sure both of those branches abide by the legal limits in the Constitution, but that's it.

(via Ed Whelan at Bench Memos)

Appellate Opinions Released November 28, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending the following for publication:

State v. Schulpius (necessary elements in proving use of a computer to facilitate a child sex-crime).

Decker v. Decker (sale of interests in LLCs in context of receivership).

Continuing Commercial Impression:

Applications and Measurement
by Gideon Mark & Jacob Jacoby
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, 433 (Summer 2006) [26 pp. pdf]

This Article examines applications and measurement of continuing commercial impression, which is the meaning or idea a trademark or trade dress conveys to consumers. The doctrine is relevant in a variety of contexts, including abandonment, tacking, claim preclusion, and the Morehouse defense. A number of courts considering the issue have concluded that continuing commercial impression is a pure question of law. This article argues that such a view is incorrect, and that the doctrine should present a mixed question of law and fact. In determining whether continuing commercial impression exists, the sole factor should not be the visual or aural appearance of the mark. Instead, commercial impression should be tested by a range of evidence, including consumer survey evidence, if it is available. This Article then examines two rare examples where survey evidence has been gathered and proffered to assess the existence of continuing commercial impression. The Article concludes by drawing implications from these examples for future efforts to use consumer survey evidence to establish or rebut the existence of commercial impression.

Wisconsinites May Soon Be Dropped from No-Call List

At WisBlawg

Many Wisconsinites may soon be dropped off the Wisconsin No-call list which identifies residents who do not wish to receive telemarketing calls. Numbers remain on the list for two years.

Top Law Schools 2007

U.S. News & World Report rankings

Appellate Opinions Released November 27, 2006

Neither the Wisconsin Supreme Court nor the Wisconsin Court of Appeals released any opinions today.

Judicial Conference of the United States, September 19, 2006

Latest group photo.

From The Third Branch, monthly newsletter of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Wisconsin Super Lawyers

The 2006 edition just came in the mail.

The Verdict, November 2006

The latest issue [8 pp. pdf] of this Marquette Law School student publication

Sales tax exemptions come under scrutiny

Steven Walters reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton) is working on a proposal to eliminate many of the exemptions to the state sales tax.

"It's not a tax increase," said Erpenbach, who conceded that his plan would still force consumers to pay more for some goods and services that are now exempt.

Accompanying the article is this chart of potential revenue, including $113 million if legal services were taxed.

Why a Voluntary Bar

Every lawyer should have the right to choose whether to belong to a professional association.

Our State Bar's President Steve Levine in Wisconsin Lawyer

Election results may help DNR

Lee Berquist reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on how the recent election is likely to make things easier for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Start Me Up

Jacob Heilbrun in The New York Times reviews three recent anti-Ann Coulter books.

Instead of exposing Coulter as a mortal threat to the Republic, the only thing they expose is their own credulity. In the end, these witless little books don't puncture the Coulter myth. They inflate it.

Welcome and Introduction

Fair and Independent Courts: A Conference on the State of the Judiciary

John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University, and Michael Traynor, President, American Law Institute; transcript [5 pp. pdf] and webcast from this September 28-29, 2006 event presented by Georgetown Law School and the American Law Institute

(via The Third Branch)

Interview with James Lindgren

At the National Federalist Society web site

We asked Northwestern University Professor James Lindgren, an empirical scholar who studies judicial politics, for his opinion of the New York Times study of campaign contributions to Ohio Supreme Court Justices. The Times devoted two full pages to their study in the Sunday, October 1 paper: "Campaign Cash Mirrors a High Court's Rulings," by Adam Liptak and Janet Roberts.

Gap in scores puts standards to test

Amy Hetzner reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

About 70% to 85% of Wisconsin students were considered proficient or better on the state's reading and math tests for the 2005-'06 school year. Yet only 33% to 40% of the state's fourth- and eighth-graders scored at least proficient on the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress in those subjects, according to the study by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. ...

A Fordham study of the 2005 federal scores found that while 19 states had reported gains by their eighth-graders on state-administered reading tests, only three showed any progress on the federal test.

Raising The Legal Premium

Patricia Vowinkel in Risk & Insurance

Law firms hunger for higher professional malpractice liability limits as they come under fire because of conflicts of interest, unscrupulous clients, complex deals and larger scale.

Cafe's daily special is always fellowship

Tom Heinen reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the Open Door Cafe.

The cafe operates in the Archbishop Weakland Center at 831 N. Van Buren St., next to the cathedral, as a ministry of the parish. ...

The cafe is projected to serve more than 55,000 hot meals and bag lunches this year, with a budget of about $120,000 coming from various sources, said Sister Donna Gazzana, director of outreach ministries for the parish.

The cafe staff is assisted by volunteers.

Downtown law firms that have regularly scheduled volunteer days include Quarles & Brady, Foley & Lardner, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, von Briesen & Roper and Gutglass Erickson Bonville Seibel Falkner.

(via From the Anchor Hold)

Since You Asked...

George Lightbourn at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

Madison's weekly newspaper Isthmus asked me and several other people to share a couple of ideas for Governor Doyle to address in his second term. This is what I sent them. [2 pp. pdf]

State's markup law knocks some medicines out of Target's $4 plan

Guy Boulton reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, or minimum markup law, bars retailers from selling products at below cost. The law prevents Target from selling 16 drugs, or specific dosages of a drug, at the $4 price in Wisconsin.

That's out of more than 300 items - when different dosages of the generic drugs are taken into account - included in the discount program.

Here's a critique of the law by the Federal Trade Commission.

You've Never Seen Anyone Like Allison Margolin--

Could YouTube Be for You, Too?

Peter Darling in Law Practice

When we think of lawyers in the movies, a few standouts automatically pop to mind. There's Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Tracy and Hepburn in Adam's Rib, of course. And Tom Cruise did it twice, in A Few Good Men and The Firm. But the latest Beverly Hills film about a lawyer takes a decidedly different twist—it stars a real lawyer, it's self-produced, it's online, and it's free. Is it just another Hollywood story or the future of legal marketing?

Just Like Home

Aruna Viswanatha in The American Lawyer

When Thompson Coburn's litigators hit the road, innovative technology gives them all the comforts of the firm's St. Louis base.

Appellate Opinions Released November 22, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending publication of the following:

DaimlerChrysler Services North America, LLC v. DOR (deductibility of portions of bad debts attributable to sales taxes associated with those bad debts).


State v. Kolk (citizen informant must demonstrate how he knew of the activities reported for officers to have sufficient reasonable suspicion to perform a roadside frisk of a driver).


Shain v. Racine Raiders Football Club, Inc. (safe-place statute in context of an injured youth-league football coach).


State v. Hambly (suppression motion).


American Family Mutual Ins. Co. v. Bateman ("your insured car" and known loss doctrine in context of an automobile accident).

Appellate Opinions Released November 21, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions on this day.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions on this day, recommending the following for publication:

Indianhead Motors v. Brooks (replevin judgment reversed because plaintiff did not give owner notice of right to cure under the Wisconsin Consumer Act).


Kleewood, Inc. v. Hart Design & Mfg., Inc. (effect of failing to register as an "employer-paid fee employment recruiting agent" on the enforceability of a fully performed fee agreement for placement of a sales representative with the defendant).


LDC-728 Milwaukee v. Raettig (implied duty of good faith and fair dealing).


Below v. Norton (economic loss doctrine does not bar a sec. 100.18 false advertising misrepresentation claim).


David Christensen Trucking & Excavating, Inc. v. Mehdian (local rule regarding submission of summary judgment material cannot be given effect when it conflicts with sec. 802.08).

Legal News & Trends, November 2006

From Wisconsin Laywer, including

Court releases petition for review guide

Are Americans right about their Constitutional rights?

Women account for half of State Bar members under 30

Supreme Court accepts three new cases, November 21, 2006

They are

State ex rel. Castaneda v. Welch (is requirement that a citizen complaint identify a particular officer within the scope of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission's rule making authority if the officer is alleged to have concealed his identity)

State v. Johnson (may delinquent who, while in juvenile detention, commits a battery for which he is charged as an adult, be credited with some of the time spent in juvenile detention when sentenced for the battery)

Stoughton Trailers v. LIRC 2006 WI APP 157 (was termination of employee for unexcused absences due to migraine headaches discrimination on the basis of a disability, Wis. Stat. § 111.34, and a refulal to reasonably accommodate a disability, Wis. Stat. § 111.34(1)(b) )

The court also denied four petitions for writs, 41 petitions for review, and one petition to bypass.

Joint and several liability limited

One who procures alcohol for a minor is not jointly and severally liable for injuries caused if the minor later drives while intoxicated.

Unreasonable search and seizure

Rather than getting arrest and search warrants, for which there was sufficient grounds, police drove to the suspect's house from the station, told the suspect that his wife was injured in a car accident, and then arrested him after they were let in the house. Having removed him from the house, they then searched it for guns and drugs.

This is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment? According to the Seventh Circuit, it is.

Jungle Democracy

What is "jungle democracy"?

Why, its the name of a person who is suing, among others, President Bush, God, the NY Times, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, of course. What did you think it was?

Judge Edith Jones: And She Brakes for Small Animals, Too

David Lat at Above The Law reports on meeting Judge Jones at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention.

(via Althouse)

Useful Information About WI Statutes & Admin. Code on the Web

From WisBlawg

On Wednesday evening, WI Deputy Revisor of Statutes, Bruce Hoesly gave an interesting presentation to the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin on the new RSB web site.

Besides guiding us through the ins and outs of the new NXT interface for the Statutes and Administrative Code, he shared some other interesting information.

Administrative Register effective November 15, 2006

The Revisor of Statutes Bureau has issued the first half of 611 which includes

Emergency rules now in effect.
Scope statements.
Submittal of rules to legislative council clearinghouse.
Rule-making notices.
Submittal of proposed rules to the legislature.
Rule orders filed with the revisor of statutes bureau.

Appellate Opinions Released November 20, 2006

Neither the Wisconsin Supreme Court nor the Wisconsin Court of Appeals released any opinions today.

W.Va. School rejects Wisconsin demand to drop 'W' logo

The Appalachian News-Express reports

[The University of] Wisconsin has notified Westside, Weir High and 19 other schools across the nation that the university registered the W in 1996 as a trademark and no one can use or sell anything that uses it without permission, Cindy Van Matre, director of licensing for the university, has said.

(via Heart, Mind and Strength)

No Secrets Here: Federalist Society Plots In the Open

David Montgomery reports in the Washington Post on our National Lawyers Convention.

The annual three-day convention was the time to take stock of how far the Federalists have come since they set out to change the debate in America 24 years ago -- another longish game, which they are playing superbly.

The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies started with a group of conservative and libertarian law professors and students in the Midwest and elsewhere who saw what they believed was a great liberal-activist orthodoxy ensconced everywhere from the classroom to the courtroom. The Federalists believed in limited government, separation of powers and, as stated in their intellectual battle slogan, that "the province and duty of the judiciary is to say what the law is, not what it should be."

Oral argument week of November 19, 2006

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument in the following.

11/20/06 01:30 p.m. at Dist. III Courtroom, 2100 Stewart Ave., Suite 310, Wausau
State v. Douglas J. Plude, 2005AP2311-CR

Appellate Opinions Released November 17, 2006

Neither the Wisconsin Supreme Court nor the Wisconsin Court of Appeals released any opinions on November 17, 2006.

Blogs and the Bench

A report [mp3] from FutureTense at American Public Media.

The majority of judicial decisions are based on case law. But some judges are starting to look to legal blogs to help form their opinions.

The hundreds of legal blogs on the Web range from "a day in the life of a lawyer" to scholarly legal research.

Recent law school grad and legal blog taxonomer Ian Best from Ohio has created a legal blog taxonomy on his Web site 3L Ephiphany. Best says he has found 27 cases where judges have cited legal blogs in their rulings.

One of the most often cited blogs is Sentencing Law and Policy by Doug Berman, Professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.

(via WisBlawg)

Milton Friedman, 1912-2006

The link is to a June, 1995 interview with Reason magazine.

Texas Court Ruling Rebuffs Bush and World Court

Adam Liptak reports in The New York Times

In 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that 51 Mexicans on death row in the United States were entitled to “review and reconsideration” of their claims that their rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations had been violated.

One of whom was Jose Ernesto Medellin.

When the question of whether the international tribunal’s ruling must be followed reached the United States Supreme Court last year, President Bush issued a memorandum to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales directing state courts to abide by the decision of the tribunal.

The Court then remanded Medellin's case to the Texas courts.

For now, the nine judges of the Texas court, though offering slightly varying rationales, were unanimous in saying that Mr. Medellin, who was convicted of participating in the rape and murder of two teenage girls in 1993, could not rely on the Vienna Convention to save him from execution.

(via Althouse)

Appellate Opinions Released November 16, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending the following for publication:

Foremost Farms USA v. Performance Process, Inc. The question before the court was whether certain products Foremost produced could be classified as "other property" to escape application of the economic loss doctrine. Foremost purchased "defoamer" from Performance for use in reconstituting powdered milk, which was then used to make cheese and other dairy products. One batch of the defoamer contained a chemical that rendered the end dairy products unfit for human consumption. The court concluded that the dairy products could potentially be classified as "other property" under the "integrated system" or "disappointed expectations" tests, and so reversed the circuit court's grant of summary judgment.

The Gargoyle UW Law Alumni Magazine Online

WisBlawg reports

The Gargoyle, the University of Wisconsin Law School alumni magazine, is now available online. Currently, the Spring 2006 and Winter 2005 issues are available.

Yes, but each issue is one big pdf file. The UW alumni magazine On Wisconsin, by contrast, posts a contents page with links to individual articles. If The Gargoyle did that, I could have linked to the interview of Gordon Baldwin in its latest issue.

Temporary plates OK

A motorist with temporary license plates cannot be stopped by police, just to see if his registration is valid.

White-collar criminals beware

Advisory-only sentencing guidelines will not enable you to get one-day sentences in the Seventh Circuit.

Appellate Opinions Released November 15, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending none for publication.

Lawyers Receiving Electronic Documents are Free to Examine 'Hidden' Metadata: ABA Ethics Opinion

According to a press release from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility,

Lawyers who receive electronic documents are free to look for and use information hidden in metadata – information embedded in electronically produced documents -- even if the documents were provided by an opposing lawyer ...

... the only provision in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct relevant to the issue merely requires a lawyer to notify the sender when the lawyer receives what the lawyer should reasonably know were inadvertently sent documents. It does not require the recipient to return those documents unread.

(via WisBlawg)

Appellate Opinions Released November 14, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released these opinions today, recommending publication of the following:

Richards v. Badger Mutual Insurance. A person who procures alcohol for an underage drinker (who then becomes intoxicated and causes a fatal automobile accident) does not act in concert with the driver within the meaning of section 895.045(2). Only a person who acts in "accordance with a common scheme or plan to accomplish the result that caused the injury" acts in concert with the tortfeasor.

Appellate Opinions Released November 13, 2006

Neither the Wisconsin Supreme Court nor the Wisconsin Court of Appeals released any opinions on November 13, 2006.

Public invited to help improve court system online Self-Help Center

The state pro se coordinator is conducting an online survey to evaluate and improve the courts' Self-Help Center. Better help for unrepresented parties is one of four issues in the Supreme Court Planning and Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC) report Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System, Fiscal Years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. [23 pp. pdf]

When Is Employee Blogging Protected by Section 7 of the NLRA?

Katherine M. Scott in the Duke Law & Technology Review

The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from retaliating against certain types of employee speech or intimidating those who engage in it. This iBrief examines how blogging fits into the current statutory framework and recommends how the National Labor Relations Board and the courts should address the unique features of employee blogs.

(via WisBlawg)

Massachusetts Judge Settles Dispute by Ruling Burrito is Not a Sandwich

Fox News reports Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke decides.

(via Kevin Miller at Heart, Mind and Strength)

Absconding is a continuing offense

Contrary to the structure of the guidelines, the Seventh Circuit issues lengthy dicta stating that, the longer a defendant is on the lam after not reporting to serve his sentence, the longer the sentence for failure to report should be.

Parked car not seized

Twisted logic causes the 7th Circuit to conclude that, because the driver of a parked car is "seized" for fourth amendment purposes if police block him in so he can't leave, therefore, if it is physically possible for the driver of a parked car to drive away, therefore the motorist has not been "seized."

The invisible web

also called the deep web, is made up of web sites, such as online databases, not usally seachable using conventional search engines.

You might find addtional inforamtion using search engines specifically designed for such searches:
Complete Planet
IncyWincy
InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
LIbrarians' Internet Index
Turbo10

There are also such search engines for legal topics:
The Curiae Project: United States Supreme Court Record and Briefs, at Yale
LawKT: Law Firm Publications and Articles
Legal Information Institute at Cornell
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia

There are also legal meta-sites which collect links:
American Law Sources On-line
FindLaw
MegaLaw

See "Alternative Resources on the World Wide Web" by Matthew S. Lerner, For the Defense, June 2006, p. 44

P.S. Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources, at the Online Education Database

(via WisBlawg)

Update: Trexy "Blaze Search Trails"

Oral argument week of November 12, 2006

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument in the following.

Dist. II, 2727 North Grandview Blvd., Waukesha
11/14/06 9:30 a.m. WIREdata, Inc. v. Village of Sussex, 2005AP1473, 2006AP174, 2006AP175

November 10th Douglas Kmiec "The Supreme Court and the War on Terror"

Professor Douglas W. Kmiec of the Pepperdine University Law School will speak at a luncheon presented by the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter and the Marquette Law Student Chapter on the topic "The Supreme Court and the War on Terror --What Remains of the President's Power to 'Wage War Successfully'?"

Prior to Hamdi, Rasul, and Hamdan, the Supreme Court had observed that the power to wage war is "the power to wage war successfully." See Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 93. (1943). This observation of Chief Justice Hughes was also noted by two famous Court civil libertarians, Justices Douglas and Black, in their concurring opinion in New York Times v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 714, 91 S. Ct. 2140, 2142 (1971). In light of recent rulings against the President's conduct of the "war on terror," is this still true?

To attend, print and mail the reservation form.

Here is a list of our past chapter events.

Appellate Opinions Released November 10, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court did not release any non-discipline related opinions today.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals did not release any opinions today.

Appellate Opinions Released November 9, 2006

The Wisconsin Supreme Court released these opinions today:

State v. Lord (operating an automobile with temporary plates does not create sufficient reasonable suspicion to support a Terry stop).