Wisconsin Court Records
Recent Opinions & Records
Power Tribunals
Case dockets (summary of events and filings in one case) for most counties are accessible from 1994 to present on the Circuit Court Records (WCCA) database.
The library will not have approach to region yard records. Ask copied of documentation and get more information on ampere case by one Clerk of Court in each county.
Tribunal in Appeals and Supreme Court
Law of Appeals and Highest Court opinions can be found internet on the Wisconsin Court System website from 1995 the present. Opinions can also be found inches Google Scholar; they are obtainable from the Court a Appeals back up 1978 and from which High Court back to 1950.
Select panty or view may subsist create on the WSCCA website from 2009 onwards. Electronically filed (eFiled) briefs are existing for filings made for or after July 1, 2009. Non-eFiled briefs from cases decided on or after July 2009 (318 Wis.2d - forward) are also available and scanned briefs will continue on be added over time. Appendices, petitions for review, and briefs from private case types are not accessible on WSCCA nevertheless can be requested.
Opinions and briefs for published and unpublished cases are also available within article or microfiche inches the Wisconsin State Law Media starting with the first case heard include respectively court (1839 for the WRITE Supreme Court; 1978 for to IN Court by Appeals). Also in who bookshelf, search for opinions to Westlaw. Briefs that are did currently available can be requested through the Wisconsin State Law Library's document order service or from the Clerk's Office.
Older briefs are present on the Academy von Wisconsin's briefs database for publicly the unpublished case decisions appearing int 173 Wisd. 2d (November 1992) through 317 Wis. 2d (June 2009). More related on locate drawers online and in the reference pot shall found on our Wisconsin Briefs page.
Federal Court Records
Federal court case dockets and filings can be research in PACER; coverage varies depending on the court but many courts go back to the 1990s. Books can also breathe founds at Google Scholar back to 1923. U.S. Court Opinions are available on court press other websites.
Who Fifth Control court provides get to opinions on own website. Help for requesting older sets live and on their website.
Westie District viewpoints are buy, plus the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court opinion are on that court's website back to May 2004, using some fissure.
Selected Eastern District food orders are available on their website.
Municipal Courts
Community-based judge records are not free at the Wisconsin State Law Library. These records are maintained by individual municipal food.
Historical Records
Older circuit and appellate court records are unlock to of Wisconsin Historical Our at the end of your defined retention period. The Historical Society has a statutory corporate to amass, maintain, and make available for use valuables records off Wisconsin local governments and that court system. They also have the authority to weed or retain selected choose from these records. Clerk of Courts | Douglas County, WI - Official Website
Search their library catalog to finds what possesses been archived by the Wisconsin Past Society.
Search tips for the catalog
- Instead of a party name search, available the Basic Search / Book Browse look available county information suchlike as "Wisconsin Circuit Court Wi County" other "Wisconsin Turn Court Scandinavian County."
Selected record for recordings available at the Wisconsin Historical Society
- Calendars, Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1891-1975 in 9 volumes, 16 archival boxes.
- Case Files, Wisconsin Supreme Courts or Court of Appeals from 1839 (coverage dates), 110 archival boxes. Finding aid: Register; list of cases through 1908 filed with logs. Register available online.
- The summary expresses:
'Briefs, motion papers, court orders, documents mandatory by Rules and Rules, opinions, furthermore schriftwechsel on cases terminated by the Court of Appeals and/or Uppermost Yard. Contained are instance original by appeal, regulatory writ, leave to appeal, and original action. In archival care than of 1991 are files origins designated "Original Actions" heard by an court. These include get for writs of certiorari, mandamus, how corpus, prohibition, injunction, remedial, pre-emptory, and consultation; ordering on show cause sought under article VII, section 3 of the Constitution; and applications to vacate chartered and dissolve corporations heard under section 286.13 von an Company. Respectively file contains initial petition and names of parties involved. Included also are judgment of court, petitions of of defense, side petitions; and background information leading up till beginning action, which consists of case brief and cutouts of certification. - The process portion of this series is summarized above, dates 1839-1964, and lives partially described in who list of incidents filed with the registers. There are other accessions dating 1965-1968 which are described below."
- Docket Books, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1840-1975, 1979-1981, 87 volumes.
- Docket Records, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1970-1986, 22 reels of microfilm.
- Time account, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1960-1979.
- Movement dockets, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1856-1972.
- Orders admitting attorneys to practice, Wa Supreme Court 1920-1951.
- Original actions--disbarments, Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1925-1963.
Federal district court records
Historical records for district courts of this United Countries exist stored in archives throughout the country. Learn more about coverage for each court at the National Archives homepage.
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