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Opinions

Opinions are released daily at approximately 8:30 a.m. CDT.
Information on precedential value of opinions.

Court orders listing the cases that will be published are available for each month. Court orders listing opinions that will not be published are also available. These cases are also listed in the table of unpublished opinions.

Certifications

A certification is a request by the Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court take jurisdiction over a case. They remain on the site until denied or the Supreme Court issues an opinion. Certifications released since March 1997 are available on this site.

Oral arguments

  • Oral argument schedule
    This document contains a listing of the cases scheduled for oral argument by each of the Court of Appeals districts. It is updated on an ongoing basis. The 'last updated date' is noted at the top of the document.
  • Listen to oral arguments online
    Only oral arguments from Court of Appeals District II and III are currently available online.

Briefs

Briefs filed on or after July 1, 2009 are available on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Case Access site in text-searchable format. Briefs filed from November 1992 to June 2009 are available through the University of Wisconsin Law Library (external link) in scanned form.

Summary disposition

A summary disposition is a summary opinion in order form and disposes of an appeal that has been briefed and submitted for consideration. Summary dispositions released since January 1, 2013 are available on this site.