State ex rel. Block v. Circuit Court for Dane County

¶ 1. Mark Block seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the Wisconsin Elections Board from deposing witnesses during the course of its investigation of a complaint involving a mailing undertaken and financed by the Wisconsin Coalition for Voter Participation in the waning days of the 1997 Wisconsin Supreme Court election in which incumbent Justice Jon Wilcox was challenged by Attorney Walter Kelly. Among other things, the Board is investigating the existence of a connection between the Coalition's expenditures for the mailing and the Wilcox campaign. Mark Block was the director of the Wilcox…