Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session
Relating to: appealing a municipal court matter after review by a circuit court.
Circuit court Civil service Court — Municipal Court — Traffic Forfeiture Frac sand Ordinance
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a final judgment or a final order of a circuit court may
generally be appealed to the court of appeals. Under current law, a judgment or order
of a circuit court in a traffic forfeiture or a municipal ordinance case is considered
final when it disposes of the entire matter in litigation as to one or more of the parties,
and is either reduced to writing and filed with the circuit court or, after the matter
is prosecuted in circuit court, recorded in a docket entry.
In
Village of McFarland v. Zetzman
, 2012 WI App 49, the court of appeals held
that in a traffic forfeiture case or other municipal ordinance case, for the purpose of
determining whether a matter may be appealed, the matter may be considered
"prosecuted in circuit court" if the matter was initially heard in municipal court and
subsequently reviewed by the circuit court.
This bill clarifies the language in current law to conform with the
Zetzman
decision.