TRINITY PETROLEUM v. SCOTT OIL CO.

No. 2005AP2837.

735 N.W.2d 1 (2007)

2007 WI 88

TRINITY PETROLEUM, INC., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SCOTT OIL COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 6, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Alan H. Marcuvitz, Susan M. Sager, Juan S. Ramirez, Aaron H. Kastens, and Michael Best & Friedrich L.L.P., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Juan S. Ramirez.

For the plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by Douglas W. Rose and Rose & DeJong, S.C., Brookfield, and oral argument by Douglas W. Rose.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by William C. Gleisner, Milwaukee, and Lynn R. Laufenberg and Laufenberg & Hoefle, S.C., on behalf of the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.


¶ 1 SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Chief Justice.

This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals affirming the order of the circuit court for Waukesha County, James R. Keiffer, Judge.1 The circuit court denied Scott Oil Company, Inc.'s (the defendant's) motion for sanctions against Trinity Petroleum, Inc. (the plaintiff) for alleged frivolous commencement and maintenance of a lawsuit...

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