Legal Opinion
In Re Mental Condition of Billy Jo W.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided April 21, 1994No. 92-0854PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtShirley S. Abrahamson, J.
This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals, In Re the Mental Condition of Billy Jo W., 173 Wis. 2d 310, 497 N.W.2d 135 (Ct. App. 1992), reversing an order of the circuit court, Allan P. Torhorst, Judge. The circuit court authorized the Racine Journal Times and Gary Metro, a Racine Journal Times reporter, to review and publish portions of the court records produced as a result of Billy Jo W.'s chapter 51, Stats. 1991-92, civil commitment and recommitments.
The legislature has set forth countervailing policies favoring, on the one hand, confidentiality of records of ch. 51…
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