Legal Opinion
Milwaukee City Housing Authority v. Felton Cobb
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided March 12, 2015No. 2013AP002207PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAnnette Kingsland Ziegler, J.
¶ 1. This is a review of a published decision of the court of *363appeals, Milwaukee City Housing Authority v. Cobb, 2014 WI App 70, 354 Wis. 2d 603, 849 N.W.2d 920, which reversed the Milwaukee County circuit court's1 judgment of eviction and restitution order against Felton Cobb ("Cobb").
¶ 2. Cobb lives in federally subsidized housing. His landlord, the Milwaukee City Housing Authority ("Housing Authority"), brought an eviction action against him because he violated the terms of his lease by engaging in "drug-related criminal activity"2— specifically, he smoked marijuana inside of his…
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