Daniel Virnich v. Jeffrey Vorwald

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Daniel Virnich sued defendants Jeffrey Vorwald, American Trust and Savings Bank, Michael Polsky, and Beck Chaet Bamburger & Polsky, S.C., in this diversity action alleging violations of Wisconsin Statute section 134.01. That statute prohibits conspiracies between two or more people to willfully or maliciously injure the reputation, trade, business or profession of another. The district court dismissed Virnich’s suit for failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) pursuant to the Supreme Court’s interpretation and application of that rule and Rule 8 in Bell…