New Richmond News v. City of New Richmond ( 2015 )


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    2015 WI 106
    SUPREME COURT            OF     WISCONSIN
    CASE NO.:              2014AP1938
    COMPLETE TITLE:        New Richmond News and Steven Dzubay,
    Plaintiffs-Respondents,
    v.
    City of New Richmond,
    Defendant-Appellant.
    PETITION TO BYPASS DENIED
    OPINION FILED:         December 18, 2015
    SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS:
    ORAL ARGUMENT:         September 18, 2015
    SOURCE OF APPEAL:
    COURT:              Circuit
    COUNTY:             St. Croix
    JUDGE:              Howard W. Cameron, Jr.
    JUSTICES:
    CONCURRED:          ABRAHAMSON, A.W. BRADLEY, J.J., concur. (Opinion
    Filed)
    DISSENTED:
    NOT PARTICIPATING:   R.G. BRADLEY, J., did not participate.
    For the defendant-appellant, there were briefs by Remzy D.
    Bitar,     Timothy     M.   Johnson,   Samantha   R.   Schmid,   and   Crivello
    Carlson, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Remzy D. Bitar.
    For the plaintiff-respondents, there was a brief by Dustin
    B. Brown, Robert J. Dreps and Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Madison, and
    oral argument by Robert J. Dreps.
    There was an amicus curiae brief by Christa Westerberg and
    McGillivray Westerberg & Bender LLC, on behalf of the Wisconsin
    Newspaper Association and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of
    the Press.
    There        was     an     amicus    curiae     brief    by   Andrew    C.   Cook,
    assistant attorney general, Delanie Breuer, assistant attorney
    general, with whom on the brief was Brad D. Schimel, attorney
    general, on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
    There was an amicus curiae brief by Claire Sliverman and
    League   of      Wisconsin        Municipalities,       Madison,     and    Andrew   T.
    Phillips and von Briesen & Roper, S.C., Milwaukee, on behalf of
    League     of        Wisconsin     Municipalities       and     Wisconsin     Counties
    Association.
    There was an amicus curiae brief by                         Timothy     M. Barber,
    Michael J. Modl, Gesina M. Seiler                     and    Axley Brynelson, LLP,
    Madison,        on     behalf     of     Wisconsin     County      Mutual    Insurance
    Corporation and Community Insurance Corporation.
    
    2015 WI 106
    NOTICE
    This opinion is subject to further
    editing and modification.   The final
    version will appear in the bound
    volume of the official reports.
    No.    2014AP1938
    (L.C. No.   2013CV163)
    STATE OF WISCONSIN                                :            IN SUPREME COURT
    New Richmond News and Steven Dzubay,
    Plaintiffs-Respondents,
    FILED
    v.                                                           DEC 18, 2015
    City of New Richmond,                                                  Diane M. Fremgen
    Clerk of Supreme Court
    Defendant-Appellant.
    APPEAL from a judgment and an order of the Circuit Court
    for St. Croix County, Howard W. Cameron, Judge.                          Decision to
    accept petition to bypass vacated and remanded.
    ¶1      PER CURIAM.     The court is equally divided on whether
    to    affirm    or   reverse   the     judgment   of    the    circuit      court     for
    St. Croix County.         This case was argued before the full court;
    however, Justice N. Patrick Crooks passed away prior to the
    court's decision.         Justice Rebecca G. Bradley was appointed to
    the court after the court's decision, and therefore did not
    participate.         Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh
    Bradley,       and   Justice   David    T.   Prosser     would     affirm.         Chief
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    Justice    Patience     Drake   Roggensack,      Justice       Annette    Kingsland
    Ziegler, and Justice Michael J. Gableman would reverse.
    ¶2      This court accepted jurisdiction over this appeal on a
    petition to bypass.         Wis. Stat. § (Rule) 809.60 (2013-14).                   We
    have previously stated that when a tie vote occurs in this court
    on a bypass or certification, "justice is better served in such
    an   instance     by   remanding   to    the   court     of    appeals    for    their
    consideration."            State    v.       Richard     Knutson,        Inc.,     
    191 Wis. 2d 395
    , 396-97, 
    528 N.W.2d 430
     (1995) (remanding to court
    of appeals on a tie vote on certification); see also State v.
    Elam, 
    195 Wis. 2d 683
    , 684-85, 
    538 N.W.2d 249
     (1995) (restating
    rule but declining to remand to court of appeals on a tie vote
    on   bypass      because   court   of    appeals       had    previously       decided
    issue).
    ¶3      Accordingly, we vacate our order granting the petition
    to bypass and remand to the court of appeals.
    By   the    Court.—Decision       to   grant     the    petition    to    bypass
    vacated and cause remanded.
    ¶4      REBECCA G. BRADLEY, J., did not participate.
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    ¶5       SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.        (concurring).       I concur in
    the per curiam opinion vacating the order granting the petition
    to bypass and remanding this case to the court of appeals.
    ¶6       I write separately to memorialize the approach being
    taken      in   the   instant    case    following   a   new   justice's     (here
    Justice Rebecca G. Bradley's) appointment to the court, and to
    compare the practice at this time with past practice in this
    court and in the United States Supreme Court.
    ¶7       The per curiam looks regular in its form.1           The instant
    case       differs,   however,    from    past   cases   vacating     the   order
    granting the petition to bypass and remanding the case to the
    court of appeals.         The instant case poses the question of how a
    case should be treated by the court when the case was heard and
    decided before a new justice became a member of the court and
    the new member joins the court before an opinion is released.
    ¶8       To memorialize the approach now taken by the court in
    the instant case and to compare the present practice with this
    court's past practice and the practices of the United States
    Supreme Court, let me set forth the facts and circumstances of
    the change in the membership of the court, the status of the
    1
    See Attachment A for a list of per curiam opinions
    vacating orders granting certification or bypass and remanding
    to the court of appeals, in which the justices who voted to
    affirm or reverse are named.
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    cases heard in September and October, and the issues raised by a
    new justice's joining the court at this time.2
    ¶9       Justice N. Patrick Crooks passed away on September 21,
    2015.     Justice Rebecca G. Bradley joined the court on October 9,
    2015.
    ¶10      Prior    to   September    21,   2015,   the   court    heard    oral
    argument in nine cases.          Justice N. Patrick Crooks participated.
    No opinion was released in each of these cases prior to Justice
    Rebecca G. Bradley's joining the court.                The nine cases are set
    forth    in   the     attached   oral   argument   schedule     (Attachment      B)
    released by the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
    ¶11      In addition, after Justice N. Patrick Crooks passed
    away on September 21, 2015, and prior to Justice Rebecca G.
    Bradley's appointment, on September 22, October 5, and October
    6, 2015, the court heard oral argument in seven cases.                         The
    seven cases are set forth in the attached oral argument schedule
    (Attachment C) released by the Clerk of the Supreme Court.                      No
    opinion was released in any of these cases prior to Justice
    Rebecca G. Bradley's appointment to the court.
    ¶12      One   issue    regarding    the    court's     treatment    of   the
    instant case and other cases in which no opinion was released
    before Justice Rebecca G. Bradley became a member of the court
    2
    I am not writing about the Office of Lawyer Regulation
    lawyer discipline cases and petitions for review or bypass and
    certifications by the court of appeals.   These matters are too
    numerous and involve a large variety of factual patterns. They
    do, however, present issues similar to those presented by the
    oral argument cases.
    2
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    is whether the court or the new justice decides whether the new
    justice participates in the cases heard before the new justice
    joined the court.    No decision on this issue has been released.
    ¶13    I turn to the instant case, New Richmond News v. City
    of New Richmond.     The instant case came to the court by way of a
    party's petition to bypass the court of appeals.               As the per
    curiam states, the court granted the petition.              The court was
    divided 3-3 after the passing of Justice N. Patrick Crooks.
    ¶14    When a case resulting in a tie vote is before us on a
    certification or petition to bypass the court of appeals, the
    court   ordinarily   vacates   the   order   granting   certification    or
    bypass and remands the case to the court of appeals.3           This is a
    3
    State v. Richard Knutson, Inc., 
    191 Wis. 2d 395
    , 396-97,
    
    528 N.W.2d 430
     (1995).
    But see State v. Elam, 
    195 Wis. 2d 683
    ,     684-85,   
    538 N.W.2d 249
     (1995), stating that:
    The court is equally divided on whether to affirm or
    reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court for
    Milwaukee County, Jeffrey A. Wagner, Judge.     Chief
    Justice Roland B. Day, Justices Donald W. Steinmetz
    and Janine P. Geske would affirm. Justices Shirley S.
    Abrahamson, William A. Bablitch and Ann Walsh Bradley
    would reverse.     Justice Jon P. Wilcox did not
    participate.
    This court accepted jurisdiction over this appeal on a
    petition to bypass. Wis. Stat. § (Rule) 809.60 (1993-
    94).   We have previously stated that when a tie vote
    occurs in this court on a bypass or certification,
    "justice is better served in such an instance by
    remanding   to  the   court   of   appeals   for their
    consideration."   State v. Richard Knutson, Inc., 
    191 Wis. 2d 395
    , 396-397, 
    528 N.W.2d 430
     (1995).
    We do not remand this appeal to the court of appeals
    because the court of appeals has already decided the
    (continued)
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    sensible procedure.      No way exists for breaking the tie vote in
    this court, and remanding the case to the court of appeals gives
    the parties appellate review of the trial court's decision.
    ¶15   Unlike those prior cases regarding a tie vote in a
    certification or bypass, in the instant case there is a way of
    breaking the tie vote in this court; Justice Rebecca G. Bradley
    could participate.      If Justice Rebecca G. Bradley participated
    in the instant case, the parties and the public could have a
    decision   by   this   court   more   quickly   than   if    the    case   were
    remanded to the court of appeals.           A decision by this court
    would also avoid the possibility of further review by this court
    following the decision by the court of appeals.4
    issue presented in this appeal, namely whether 
    Wis. Stat. § 973.012
     (1993-94) prohibits a defendant from
    basing an appeal on a sentencing court's failure to
    take sentencing guidelines into consideration.     In
    State v. Halbert, 
    147 Wis. 2d 123
    , 131-32, 
    432 N.W.2d 633
     (Ct. App. 1988), the court of appeals held
    that a sentencing court's failure to consider the
    sentencing guidelines is not subject to appellate
    review.
    4
    Several of the cases the court sent to the court of
    appeals after a tied vote came back to this court after a
    decision of the court of appeals. See, e.g., Polsky v. Virnich,
    
    2009 WI 66
    , ¶1, 
    318 Wis. 2d 599
    , 
    769 N.W.2d 52
     (returned to the
    court in 2011 and decided in Polsky v. Virnich, 
    2011 WI 13
    , ¶1,
    
    332 Wis. 2d 1
    , 
    800 N.W.2d 742
     (court remained evenly divided));
    Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Doyle, 
    2004 WI 34
    , ¶¶2, 4, 
    270 Wis. 2d 267
    , 
    677 N.W.2d 275
     (recertified by the court of appeals
    and decided by this court in Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v.
    Doyle, 
    2006 WI 107
    , 
    295 Wis. 2d 1
    , 
    719 N.W.2d 408
    ); Wenke v.
    Gehl Co., 
    2003 WI 96
    , ¶1, 
    263 Wis. 2d 675
    , 
    665 N.W.2d 211
    (returned to this court for review of the court of appeals'
    decision in Wenke v. Gehl Co., 
    2004 WI 103
    , 
    274 Wis. 2d 220
    , 
    682 N.W.2d 405
    ); State v. Watson, 
    209 Wis. 2d 281
    , 282-83, 
    562 N.W.2d 151
     (1997) (returned to this court for review of the
    (continued)
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    ¶16     The per curiam explains Justice Rebecca G. Bradley's
    non-participation in the instant case as follows: "This case was
    argued before the full court; however, Justice N. Patrick Crooks
    passed away prior to the court's decision.              Justice Rebecca G.
    Bradley was appointed to the court after the court's decision,
    and therefore did not participate."5             All court decisions are
    tentative until the opinion is released.
    ¶17     To put the present situation into focus, I look to the
    prior    practice   of   this   court   and    the   United    States    Supreme
    Court.    Under past precedent of this court and the United States
    Supreme Court, it appears that if a new justice is available to
    break a tie vote, then the court, without the new justice's
    input, decides whether to reargue the case.              In reargument, the
    new justice participates.
    ¶18     Although this court has not had much experience with a
    new justice joining the court after a case has been heard but
    before an opinion is released, we have had some.
    ¶19     The circumstances surrounding my arrival on the court
    in September 1976 are instructive.
    ¶20     Chief Justice Horace Wilkie passed away on May 26,
    1976.    I was appointed by the governor in August 1976 and was
    sworn in on September 7, 1976.              Two cases that had been heard
    court of appeals decision in State v. Watson, 
    227 Wis. 2d 167
    ,
    
    595 N.W.2d 403
     (1999)).
    5
    Per curiam, ¶1.     Justice Rebecca G. Bradley did not
    participate in the court's decision in State v. Iverson, 
    2015 WI 101
    , ¶62, ___ Wis. 2d ___, ___ N.W.2d ___, heard before Justice
    Rebecca G. Bradley joined the court.
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    before Chief Justice Wilkie's death resulted in a tie after his
    death:       Punches      v.       Schmidt,    
    73 Wis. 2d 206
    ,         
    243 N.W.2d 518
    (1976);     and     State      v.   Kline,     
    73 Wis. 2d 337
    ,         
    243 N.W.2d 519
    (1976).     In each case, the court issued a per curiam opinion on
    June 30, 1976, stating how each justice had voted and further
    stating that because the court was equally divided following the
    passing of Chief Justice Wilkie, the judgment of the trial court
    was affirmed.         Because I had not yet taken office, nobody was
    available to break the tie.                   The justices who heard the cases
    obviously decided not to hold the cases over until September
    when a new justice would, in all likelihood, participate.
    ¶21     A third case that was affected by the death of Chief
    Justice Wilkie was Buse v. Smith, 
    74 Wis. 2d 550
    , 
    247 N.W.2d 141
    (1976).     Buse was an original action that was argued on May 5,
    1976.     No decision was announced and no opinion was released
    before Chief Justice Wilkie died on May 26.                          There was no trial
    court decision to affirm.                  No court of appeals existed at the
    time.
    ¶22     To resolve Buse, the court, sitting six (and without
    my input), set Buse for reargument on September 8, 1976, when a
    seven-person court would in all likelihood be sitting.                                  After I
    was   sworn    in,    a     seven-member           court,       including       me,    sat     for
    reargument     and    decided        the     case.         An   opinion     was       issued   on
    November 30, 1976.
    ¶23     I turn to the procedures followed by the United States
    Supreme     Court    when      a    change    in     the    membership      of        the   Court
    occurs.     These procedures are instructive as well.
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    ¶24       The practices followed by the United States Supreme
    Court      when      a   new    justice     joins       the    court   are     set    forth    in
    Stephen M. Shapiro et al., Supreme Court Practice, Ch. 15.6, at
    838-39         (10th     ed.    2013).      The       practice   of    the     United    States
    Supreme         Court      is     that     only       the     justices       who     originally
    participated in a case decide how the case should be handled
    when       a   new     justice     joins    the       court.      If     the    justices      who
    originally participated in the case decide that the new justice
    should have an opportunity to participate, they set the case for
    reargument.            If the case is set for reargument, the new justice
    may participate            in the reargument.                  No precedent appears to
    exist in the United States Supreme Court for a new justice who
    did not participate in oral argument to participate in the case
    without reargument.6
    ¶25       Here is the relevant discussion from the Shapiro text:
    The normal practice is for any Justices who did not
    participate in the original decision to disqualify
    themselves in considering the petition for rehearing.
    Thus, Justice Stewart, who had not been a member of
    the Court when Flora v. United States, 
    357 U.S. 63
    (1958), was decided, took no part in the subsequent
    request for a response to the petition for rehearing
    (
    358 U.S. 871
     (1958)) or in the order granting
    6
    At least one case suggests that an equally divided United
    States Supreme Court alone is not a sufficient reason to grant a
    reargument.    Rather, reargument may be warranted only when
    important constitutional questions are involved.    See City of
    Shreveport v. Holmes, 
    125 U.S. 694
     (1888) ("These petitions are
    denied. The rehearing was granted in Insurance Co. v. New York,
    
    119 U.S. 129
    , ante, 1385, after a decision by a divided court,
    because an important constitutional question was involved. The
    questions in these cases are not of that character.") (emphasis
    added).
    7
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    rehearing (
    360 U.S. 922
     (1959)), but did participate
    in the reargument (
    362 U.S. 145
     (1960)).    See also
    Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic S.S. Corp., 
    349 U.S. 901
    , 926 (1955), 
    350 U.S. 124
     (1956); Indian
    Towing Co. v. United States, 
    349 U.S. 902
    , 926, 
    350 U.S. 61
     (1955).
    Despite the above limitations, rehearing petitions
    have been granted in the past where the prior decision
    was by an equally divided Court and it appeared likely
    that upon reargument a majority one way or the other
    might be mustered.     This means that a Justice who
    originally   participated   voted  for   rehearing  in
    recognition of the importance of the Court's resolving
    the question upon which it had divided.       This was
    particularly true when a new Justice became available
    to break the tie.    The same practice still prevails,
    especially when a new Justice makes a majority
    possible.22  In such cases, the new Justice does not
    participate in the consideration of the petition for
    rehearing but does take part in the reargument and the
    ensuing judgment.
    When the equal division has resulted from the failure
    of a member of the Court to participate for personal
    reasons, and the petition for rehearing will not
    result in his or her participation, the mere fact of
    the equal division will not cause the petition to be
    granted, although it may be granted for other reasons.
    But in Bartkus v. Illinois, 
    355 U.S. 281
    , 
    356 U.S. 969
    (1958), 
    359 U.S. 121
     (1959), and in Ladner v. United
    States, 
    355 U.S. 282
    , 
    356 U.S. 969
    , 
    358 U.S. 169
    (1958), Justice Brennan did not participate in the
    affirmances by equal divisions; he had been a member
    of the court below in Hoag v. New Jersey, 
    356 U.S. 464
    (1958), a companion case argued at the same time.
    Once   the  Hoag   case   was  decided,   however,  he
    participated in the orders granting rehearing in
    Bartkus and Ladner and in the subsequent rearguments
    and opinions in those cases.
    . . . .
    22
    [T]he Court on its own initiative restored three
    cases to the calendar for reargument during the 2005
    Term. See Garcetti v. Ceballos, 
    546 U.S. 1162
     (2005);
    Kansas v. Marsh, 
    547 U.S. 1037
     (2005); Hudson v.
    Michigan, 
    547 U.S. 1096
     (2005).   Each of these cases
    originally had been argued between the death of Chief
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    Justice Rehnquist on September 3, 2005, and the
    swearing-in of Justice Alito on February 1, 2006.
    Presumably, the Court restored these cases to the
    calendar because an equally divided vote had resulted;
    the opinions ultimately issued in these three cases
    all were split 5-4, with the majority vote in each
    case including Justice Alito.        See Garcetti v.
    Ceballos, 
    547 U.S. 410
     (2005); Hudson v. Michigan, 
    547 U.S. 586
     (2006); Kansas v. Marsh, 
    548 U.S. 163
     (2006);
    see also Ryan Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Corp., 
    349 U.S. 901
    ,
    926 (1955); Indian Towing Co. v. United States, 
    349 U.S. 902
    , 926 (1955).
    
    Id.,
     838-39 & n.22 (emphasis added; footnote 22 shown; other
    footnotes omitted).
    ¶26     In sum, under past precedent of this court and the
    United States Supreme Court, it appears that if a new justice is
    available to break a tie vote, then the court, without the new
    justice's   input,     decides    whether    to    reargue     the    case.      In
    reargument, the new justice participates.
    ¶27     Although    the   per    curiam       does   not    appear      to   be
    consistent with this past practice, this court appears to have
    adopted a new practice.          I therefore concur in the decision to
    vacate the order granting the petition to bypass and remand this
    matter to the court of appeals.
    ¶28     To aid the court in the future, I write separately to
    memorialize the practice adopted by the court at this time and
    to describe the past practice of this court and the practices of
    the United State Supreme Court.
    ¶29     For the reasons set forth, I write separately.
    ¶30     I   am   authorized     to   state    that   Justice      ANN     WALSH
    BRADLEY joins this opinion.
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    ATTACHMENT A
    1.   Metro. Milwaukee Ass'n of Commerce, Inc. v. City
    of   Milwaukee,   
    2010 WI 122
    ,   ¶¶1,   3,   
    329 Wis. 2d 537
    ,   
    789 N.W.2d 734
       ("The   court   is
    equally divided whether to affirm or reverse the
    order of the circuit court.       Justice David T.
    Prosser, Justice Patience Drake Roggensack, and
    Justice Michael J. Gableman would affirm.      Chief
    Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh
    Bradley, and Justice N. Patrick Crooks would
    reverse. Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler did
    not participate. . . . [W]e vacate our order
    granting certification and remand to the court of
    appeals.").
    2.   Wis. Realtors Ass'n, Inc. v. Town of W. Point,
    
    2007 WI 139
    , ¶¶2, 4, 
    306 Wis. 2d 42
    , 
    743 N.W.2d 441
     ("The court is equally divided on
    whether to affirm or reverse the judgment of the
    circuit   court.      Chief Justice   Shirley  S.
    Abrahamson,   Justice   Ann Walsh   Bradley,  and
    Justice Patience Drake Roggensack would affirm.
    Justice N. Patrick Crooks, Justice David T.
    Prosser, and Justice Louis B. Butler, Jr. would
    reverse on the grounds that neither 
    Wis. Stat. § 236.45
     nor 
    Wis. Stat. § 61.34
     provide the Town
    the authority to enact a moratorium on land
    division.   Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler did
    not participate. . . . [W]e vacate our order
    granting certification and remand to the court of
    appeals").
    3.   Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Doyle, 
    2004 WI 34
    , ¶¶2, 4, 
    270 Wis. 2d 267
    , 
    677 N.W.2d 275
     ("The
    court is equally divided on whether to affirm the
    judgment of the circuit court.        Chief Justice
    Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley,
    and Justice N. Patrick Crooks would affirm.
    Justice David T. Prosser, Jr., Justice Diane S.
    Sykes, and Justice Patience D. Roggensack would
    reverse.      Justice  Jon   P.   Wilcox   did  not
    participate. . . . [W]e vacate our order granting
    certification    and  remand   to   the   court  of
    appeals.").
    10
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    4.   State v. Agnello, 
    2003 WI 44
    , ¶¶1, 3, 
    261 Wis. 2d 331
    , 
    664 N.W.2d 55
     ("The court is equally
    divided on whether to affirm or reverse the
    judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee
    County. Justice William A. Bablitch, Justice Jon
    P. Wilcox, and Justice N. Patrick Crooks would
    affirm.    Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson,
    Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and Justice David T.
    Prosser would reverse.    Justice Diane S. Sykes
    did not participate. . . . [W]e vacate our order
    granting certification and remand to the court of
    appeals.").
    5.   Wenke v. Gehl Co., 
    2003 WI 96
    ,            ¶1, 
    263 Wis. 2d 675
    ,   
    665 N.W.2d 211
      ("The   court  is
    equally divided on whether to affirm or reverse
    the judgment of the circuit court. Justice N.
    Patrick Crooks, Justice David T. Prosser, Jr.,
    and Justice Diane S. Sykes would affirm. Chief
    Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice William A.
    Bablitch, and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley would
    reverse.   Justice   Jon   P.  Wilcox    did  not
    participate.").
    6.   State v. Greer, 
    2003 WI 20
    , ¶¶1, 3, 
    260 Wis. 2d 43
    , 
    658 N.W.2d 795
     ("The court is equally
    divided on whether to affirm or reverse the
    judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee
    County.    Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson,
    Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and Justice David T.
    Prosser would affirm.       Justice William A.
    Bablitch, Justice N. Patrick Crooks, and Justice
    Diane S. Sykes would reverse.     Justice Jon P.
    Wilcox did not participate. . . . [W]e vacate our
    order granting certification and remand to the
    court of appeals.").
    7.   Guzman v. St. Francis Hosp., Inc., 
    2000 WI 34
    ,
    ¶¶1, 3, 
    234 Wis. 2d 170
    , 
    609 N.W.2d 166
     ("The
    court is equally divided on whether to affirm or
    reverse the order of the circuit court for
    Milwaukee County.      Chief Justice Abrahamson,
    Justices Bablitch and Bradley would affirm.
    Justices Wilcox, Crooks and Sykes would reverse.
    Justice Prosser did not participate. . . . [W]e
    vacate our order granting bypass and remand to
    the court of appeals.").
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    8.    State v. Deborah J.Z., 
    225 Wis. 2d 33
    , 34-35, 
    590 N.W.2d 711
     (1999) ("The court is equally divided
    on whether to affirm or reverse the order of the
    circuit court on the charge of attempted first
    degree intentional homicide.   Justice Donald W.
    Steinmetz, Justice Jon P. Wilcox, and Justice N.
    Patrick Crooks would affirm; Justice William A.
    Bablitch, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and Justice
    David T. Prosser would reverse. . . . [W]e vacate
    our order granting certification and remand the
    cause to the court of appeals . . . . Shirley S.
    Abrahamson,     Chief    Justice,     did     not
    participate.").
    9.    State v. Watson, 
    209 Wis. 2d 281
    , 282-83, 
    562 N.W.2d 151
     (1997) ("The court is equally divided
    whether to affirm or reverse the order of the
    circuit   court.     Chief   Justice  Shirley   S.
    Abrahamson, Justice William A. Bablitch and
    Justice Ann Walsh Bradley would affirm.    Justice
    Jon P. Wilcox, Justice Janine P. Geske and
    Justice N. Patrick Crooks would reverse. Justice
    Donald       W.       Steinmetz      did       not
    participate. . . . [W]e vacate our order granting
    certification and remand to the court of appeal
    [sic].").
    10.   State v. Richard Knutson, Inc., 
    191 Wis. 2d 395
    ,
    396-97, 
    528 N.W.2d 430
     (1995) ("The court is
    equally divided on whether to affirm or reverse
    the judgment of the circuit court for Waukesha
    County.    Justice Day, Justice Abrahamson, and
    Justice Bablitch would affirm.      Chief Justice
    Heffernan, Justice Steinmetz, and Justice Geske
    would   reverse.      Justice   Wilcox   did   not
    participate. . . . [W]e vacate our decision to
    certify and remand to the court of appeals.").
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