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VAN STRATEN v. MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

No. 88-1801.

151 Wis.2d 905 (1989)

447 N.W.2d 105

Dennis J. VAN STRATEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MILWAUKEE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER-PUBLISHER, Milwaukee Sentinel Newspaper-Publisher, Appleton Post-Crescent Newspaper-Publisher, Wausau Daily Herald Newspaper-Publisher, Oshkosh Northwestern Newspaper-Publisher, and Green Bay Press Gazette Newspaper-Publisher, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided August 29, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For plaintiff-appellant pro se, there was a brief submitted by Dennis J. Van Straten.

For Oshkosh Northwestern Newspaper-Publisher and Appleton Post-Crescent Newspaper-Publisher, there was a brief submitted by Richard M. Burnham and Brady C. Williamson of LaFollette & Sinykin of Madison.

For Milwaukee Journal Newspaper-Publisher and Milwaukee Sentinel Newspaper-Publisher, there was a brief submitted by John R. Dawson and James L. Huston of Foley & Lardner of Milwaukee.

For Wausau Daily Herald there was a brief submitted by John R. Dawson and James L. Huston of Foley & Lardner of Milwaukee.

For Green Bay Press Gazette Newspaper-Publisher there was a brief submitted by John R. Dawson and James L. Huston of Foley & Lardner of Milwaukee.

Before Cane, P.J., LaRocque and Dykman, JJ.

CANE, P.J.

Dennis Van Straten appeals a summary judgment in favor of Milwaukee Journal Newspaper, et al (newspapers), dismissing his actions for violation of confidentiality under sec. 146.025(5), Stats., defamation, and invasion of privacy against six Wisconsin newspapers and some of their employees. The circuit court held that Van Straten failed to comply with sec. 802.08(3), Stats., requiring the responding party to a motion for summary judgment to set forth specific...

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