Hefty v. Strickhouser

¶ 1. This is a review of an unpublished opinion and order of the court of appeals,1 which summarily reversed the Walworth County Circuit Court, Michael S. Gibbs, Judge.

¶ 2. The case requires us to review two discretionary decisions of the circuit court. Both decisions involve the circuit court's scheduling order, which incorporated by attachment a filing deadline for a summary judgment response that departed from the deadline in Wis. Stat. § 802.08(2).2 Judge Gibbs issued a scheduling order that had a then-existing Walworth County local circuit court rule appended to it. The rule required…