STATE EX REL. BLOCK v. CIR. CT. FOR DANE CTY.

No. 00-0507-W.

234 Wis.2d 183 (2000)

2000 WI App 72

610 N.W.2d 213

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Mark BLOCK, Petitioner, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR DANE COUNTY, the Honorable Sarah B. O'Brien, presiding, Wisconsin Elections Board, James Wigderson and Brent Pickens, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided March 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioners, the cause was submitted on the petition of Michael P. Crooks of Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., of Madison.

On behalf of the respondents, the cause was submitted on the response of Alan Lee, assistant attorney general.

Before Eich, Nettesheim and Fine, JJ.


¶ 1. EICH, J.

Mark Block seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the Wisconsin Elections Board from deposing witnesses during the course of its investigation of a complaint involving a mailing undertaken and financed by the Wisconsin Coalition for Voter Participation in the waning days of the 1997 Wisconsin Supreme Court election in which incumbent Justice Jon Wilcox was challenged by Attorney Walter Kelly. Among other things, the Board is investigating the existence...

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