Archives: Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is considering a proposal allowing plea bargaining in disciplinary cases. It’s about time.

It is difficult for me to see how forcing any justice to seek approval from their fellow justices every two years is going to solve any problems. Instead, it seems to me that it would likely increase politicking among the justices, thus increasing strife.

It is no surprise lawyers are held in such low regard. If we don’t respect our own professionalism to police ourselves appropriately, why should anyone else respect us?

One of the real problems of the disciplinary system which is the length of time it takes to resolve some of these cases. And the SC does not do a good job of policing them.

I’m not sure that the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in McLeod v. Mudlaff is bad law. But the case certainly seems to involve bizarre facts.

Apparently the Wisconsin Supreme Court does recognize, after all, the rights of people to privately agree on their own affairs.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court today released its decision in Rosecky v. Schissel, which is the first surrogacy case to be decided by an appellate court in this state.

One way to perhaps take the politics out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court would be term limits. Or, according to a recent proposal, a term limit.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has done some strange things over the years, but its “decision” (there is a reason I put quotation marks around that word) in State v. Johnson, 832 NW 2d 609, 2013 WI 59, 348 Wis. 2d 450 (WI Supreme Court, 2013), this week is really weird.

Sorry if this is getting repetitive, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court today issued yet another weak discipline decision. This time it involves an attorney with four prior disciplinary proceedings.