State Ex Rel. Hass v. Wisconsin Court of Appeals

¶ 1. Petitioner Thomas E. Hass (Hass) seeks an order from this court, pursuant to our constitutional superintending and administrative authority over all lower courts, directing the court of appeals to grant every petition for interlocutory appeal from a circuit court order in which the court denied a motion asserting that a final federal court judgment bars the state court proceeding on issue and claim preclusion grounds. Currently, the court of appeals is afforded discretion in granting such petitions, limited by the criteria for granting review enumerated under Wis. Stat. §…