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4 unusual facts about Wisconsin Supreme Court


Augustus G. Weissert

Weissert mustered out September 17, 1865 with the regiment and returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he continued to study law under Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William P. Lyon.

Granville, Wisconsin

The remainder was consolidated with the City of Milwaukee after referenda held in both jurisdictions on April 3, 1956 approved the move; but on July 12, 1956, the Town Board of Granville passed a motion to repeal the ordinance under which the April referendum had been held, and the matter ended up in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which finally ruled that the consolidation had been lawfully approved; and the Town of Granville had ceased to exist.

Stray voltage

In 2003, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a judgement of $1.2 million against the Wisconsin electrical utility WEPCO in Hoffman

Wisconsin Supreme Court

This change, over an alternate by the League of Women Voters, was proposed by the Wisconsin Realtors Association and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.



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Barbara Lawton

The panel outlined a public policy plan for full-public financing of political campaigns that would “pass constitutional muster.” The panel was also known as the “Heffernan Commission” referring to the retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice, Neil Heffernan, who chaired the panel.

Justice Jackson

Mortimer M. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Justice Marshall

Roujet D. Marshall, an Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Thomas Wilson Spence

A member of the “Ohio Five” matriculating at Cornell University during that institution’s early years, counselor Spence died suddenly, aged 65, on February 23, 1912 while making oral argument in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Chambers at Madison, Wisconsin.