STATE EX REL. TREAT v. PUCKETT

No. 00-2712.

252 Wis.2d 404 (2002)

2002 WI App 58

643 N.W.2d 515

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Jerald TREAT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Stephen PUCKETT, Caroline McGraw, and Corrections Corporation of America, Respondents-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioner-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of pro se plaintiff-appellant Jerald Treat, and the supplemental briefs of Howard B. Eisenberg, Milwaukee. There was oral argument by Howard B. Eisenberg.

On behalf of the respondents-respondents, the cause was submitted on the briefs of and oral argument by Joely Urdan, assistant attorney general, and James E. Doyle, attorney general.

Before Vergeront, P.J., Dykman and Lundsten, JJ.


¶ 1. VERGERONT, P.J.

Jerald Treat, a Wisconsin inmate incarcerated at Whiteville Correctional Facility in Tennessee, sought review by certiorari of the decision on his security classification, and he now appeals the circuit court's dismissal of his petition. We conclude the circuit court correctly decided that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) has the authority under WIS. STAT. § 301.21(2m) (1999-2000)1 to delegate...

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