MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF M.W.

No. 2021AP6.

974 N.W.2d 733 (2022)

2022 WI 40

In the MATTER OF the Mental COMMITMENT OF M.W.: Sheboygan County, Petitioner-Respondent, v. M.W., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: June 10, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner there were briefs filed by Christopher B. Logel and Pinix Law, LLC, Milwaukee. There was an oral argument by Christopher B. Logel .

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief filed by Kyle C. Lepak , assistant corporation counsel. There was an oral argument by Kyle C. Lepak , assistant corporation counsel.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Colleen D. Ball , assistant state public defender and Kelli S. Thompson , state public defender for the Office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender.

ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J., delivered the majority opinion of the court, in which DALLET, HAGEDORN, and KAROFSKY, JJ., joined. HAGEDORN, J., filed a concurring opinion. ZIEGLER, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ROGGENSACK and REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, JJ., joined.


¶1 The petitioner, M.W., seeks review of an unpublished, authored decision of the court of appeals reversing the circuit court's order extending her involuntary commitment and remanding to the circuit court for further proceedings.1 She argues that the court of appeals erred by remanding to...

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