Legal Opinion
David A. Nowicki v. Lucy Cooper, Assistant Family Court Commissioner, Milwaukee County, Both Personally and in Her Official Capacity
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 1, 1995No. 93-3100PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A Wisconsin family-court judge, as authorized by Wisconsin law, Wis.Stat. §§ 757.70, 767.19(2); Forsythe v. Family Court Commissioner, 131 Wis.2d 322, 388 N.W.2d 580 (1986), refused to permit David Nowicki to attend or tape record two custody hearings before her because he was neither a party to the proceedings nor an attorney for any of the parties. Nowicki claims, in this suit for damages and for injunctive and declaratory relief that he has brought against the judge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in both her personal and official capacity, that her refusal violates a number of…
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