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Maria S. Lazar: “Our published opinions, if they don't get taken by the state…”

Featuring: Maria S. Lazar, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II

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Published | Video Starts at 20:09

And I'm almost pulling my hair out because every time I think I get it close, then someone comes on, my panel comes up with, oh, did you look at this? And you have to go back and look at it because Our published opinions, if they don't get taken by the state Supreme Court, that's the law of the state. So we need to make sure we are 100% correct. And we're not doing anything outside our bounds. We're not doing anything too broad, too narrow. And we're helping circuit court judges. (20:09–20:17)

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Asserts that published opinions by the Court of Appeals become state law unless reviewed by the state Supreme Court.

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