STATE v. MILLER

No. 94-0159.

202 Wis.2d 56 (1996)

549 N.W.2d 235

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, v. Emanuel D. MILLER, Enos S. Hershberger, David E. Yoder, Eli M. Zook, Eli E. Swartzentruber, Eli J. Zook, Levi E. Yoder and Jacob J.D. Hershberger, Defendants-Appellants, UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-respondent-petitioner the cause was argued by Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

For the defendants-appellants there was a brief by Kristina E. Williamson and Reinstra & Van Dyk, S.C., New Richmond; Kyle D. White, St. Paul, MN and Philip G. Villaume, Bloomington, MN and oral argument by Kristina E. Williamson and Kyle D. White.

For the defendant-appellant-respondent there was a brief by Frank W. Hunger, assistant attorney general; Peggy Ann Lautenschlager, United States Attorney; Michael Jay Singer and Patricia A. Millett, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. and Pamela J. Marple, Federal Programs Br., Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. and oral argument by Patricia A. Millett.

Amicus Curiae brief was filed by Marc D. Stern and the American Jewish Congress, New York, NY of the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion.


JANINE P. GESKE, J.

This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals, State v. Miller et al., 196 Wis.2d 238, 538 N.W.2d 573 (Ct. App. 1995). Claiming infringement of their rights of religious freedom, Miller and the other seven Amish defendants (Respondents) appealed a circuit court order imposing forfeitures on them for failing...

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