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ST. EX REL. FRIEDRICH v. DANE COUNTY CIR. CT.

Nos. 94-2095-W, 94-2637-W.

192 Wis.2d 1 (1995)

531 N.W.2d 32

STATE EX REL. Lisa FRIEDRICH and Marlene Porter, Petitioners, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR DANE COUNTY, Judith Coleman-Nispel, Clerk of Courts for Dane County and Richard Phelps, Dane County Executive, Respondents. IN the MATTER OF the MOTION FOR CONTEMPT IN STATE of Wisconsin v. John E. SCHWIESOW: STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. STATE of Wisconsin, Petitioner, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR BAYFIELD COUNTY, The Honorable Norman L. Yackel, Presiding and H.G. Nordling, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided April 18, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioners, Lisa Friedrich and Marlene Porter, there was a combined petition for Writ of Mandamus filed by Richard J. Auerbach and Auerbach & Porter, and Nancy C. Wettersten and Julian, Musial, Wettersten & Friedrich, S.C., all of Madison, and oral argument by Nancy C. Wettersten and Richard J. Auerbach.

For the petitioner, State of Wisconsin, the cause was argued by Alan Lee, assistant attorney general, with whom on the petition for supervisory writ was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

For the respondents, Richard Phelps & Dane County there was a response and oral argument by Margaret L. O'Donnell, assistant corporation counsel.

For the respondent, Judith Coleman-Nispel, there was a response by Bruce M. Davey and Lawton & Cates, Madison.

For the respondent, Bayfield County, there was oral argument by Gary E. Sherman, Portwing.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Gregg Herman and Loeb, Herman & Drew, S.C., Milwaukee for the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Robert Horowitz and Stafford, Rosenbaum, Rieser & Hansen, Madison for the Wisconsin Counties Association.

PER CURIAM.

This court accepted jurisdiction over the issue raised in the Friedrich-Porter petition for a writ of mandamus relating to the compensation of court-appointed guardians ad litem in Dane county. We also accepted the petition in Schwiesow for supervisory jurisdiction of the motion for contempt pending before Norman L. Yackel, presiding circuit judge for Bayfield county, relating to compensation of a courtappointed special prosecutor. We have consolidated...

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