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STORMS v. ACTION WISCONSIN INC.

No. 2006AP396.

750 N.W.2d 739 (2008)

2008 WI 56

In the matter of attorneys fees in Grant E. Storms, plaintiff, v. Action Wisconsin Inc. and Christopher Ott, defendants. James R. DONOHOO, Appellant, v. ACTION WISCONSIN, INC. and Christopher Ott, Respondents-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 5, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondents-petitioners there were briefs by Lester A. Pines, Tamara B. Packard, and Cullen Weston Pines & Bach LLP, Madison, and oral argument by Tamara B. Packard and Lester A. Pines.

For the appellant there was a brief by James R. Donohoo and James Donohoo Law Office, Milwaukee, and oral argument by James R. Donohoo.

¶ 1 ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J.

The petitioners, Action Wisconsin, Inc., and Christopher Ott, seek review of an unpublished court of appeals decision reversing a circuit court judgment that required attorney James R. Donohoo to pay costs and attorney fees for filing and maintaining a defamation lawsuit that was frivolous.1 The defamation lawsuit was commenced in response to a press release issued by Action Wisconsin.

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