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STATE EX REL. STEIGER v. EICH

No. 77-828-OA.

86 Wis.2d 390 (1978)

272 N.W.2d 380

STATE EX REL. STEIGER, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Petitioner, v. EICH, Circuit Judge, and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner the cause was submitted on the briefs of Gordon B. Baldwin, University of Wisconsin Law School, John Vanderstar, John R. Bolton and Covington & Burling of Washington, D. C.

For the respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, Marguerite M. Moeller, assistant attorney general, and James E. Doyle, Jr., district attorney for Dane county.

PER CURIAM.

This is an original action for a writ of prohibition against the circuit court for Dane county to prevent the court from compelling William A. Steiger, member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Sixth Congressional District of Wisconsin, to reveal the names of certain persons who gave the Congressman information concerning violation of the voting laws in Dane county during the 1976 presidential election. In his memorandum in...

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