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CHRISTENSEN v. SULLIVAN

No. 2006AP803.

746 N.W.2d 553 (2008)

2008 WI App 18

Milton J. CHRISTENSEN, Alisa Jamieson, Erika Henderson, William Noggle, Troy Briggs, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael J. SULLIVAN, Robert Kliesmet and Lev Baldwin, Defendants, Milwaukee County, David A. Clarke, Jr., Milwaukee County Sheriff, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed January 29, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Patrick O. Patterson of the Law Office of Patrick O. Patterson, S.C., of Milwaukee, Peter M. Koneazny of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc. of Milwaukee and Laurence Dupuis of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. of Fox Point.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Charles H. Bohl, Nathan A. Fishbach and Andrew A. Jones of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. of Milwaukee and John E. Schapekahm of Office of the Corporation Counsel Milwaukee County Courthouse of Milwaukee.

Before WEDEMEYER, FINE and KESSLER, JJ.

¶ 1 KESSLER, J.

When the trial court concluded that sanctions or compensation for continuing contempt were not available because Milwaukee County (County) had ceased violating the Consent Decree on which the trial court based its finding of contempt, it did not have the benefit of our supreme court's holdings in Frisch v. Henrichs, 2007 WI 102, 304 Wis.2d 1, 736 N.W.2d 85, decided in July 2007, while this appeal was...

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