Legal Opinion
John K. Maciver Inst. for Pub. Policy, Inc. v. Schmitz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 2018No. 17-1790PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
*1007This appeal requires us once again to delve into the intricacies of the Wisconsin "John Doe proceeding," a unique creature of Wisconsin law with some similarities to a grand jury investigation. A putative class of individuals and entities assert that they were swept up in a John Doe investigation that ran roughshod over their federal rights. They sued the members of Wisconsin's (former) Government Accountability Board and the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, complaining about actions the defendants took between 2012 and 2014 in connection with a multicounty John…
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