Sheboygan County Circuit Court, Wisconsin Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

An answer in a small claims action must be in writing.

804 Written answer

CRITICAL

Pleadings under Sec. 799 must be in writing unless the assigned judge orders otherwise.

All pleadings under Sec. 799, Wis. Stats., shall be in writing unless specifically ordered otherwise by the assigned judge.

CRITICAL

Objections to dismissal must be made in writing to the judge with jurisdiction over the action.

304 Objections to dismissal shall be made in writing to the judge having jurisdiction of the action to be dismissed.

CRITICAL

A jury view must be requested in writing by the deadline specified in days before trial, and all parties must receive notice of the request.

Any jury view is to be requested in writing no later than days prior to trial with notice of such request to be given to all parties.

CRITICAL

Court papers must be on substantial paper, contain the assigned case number, and identify the assigned circuit court branch in the caption.

All papers, pleadings, motions, etc., shall be on substantial paper, contain the case number assigned and designate in the caption the branch of circuit court assigned to the case.

WARNING

Applies to

Facsimile document transmitted through non court intermediary

Facsimile documents sent through a non-court intermediary must be plain paper documents.

C. They are plain paper documents.

WARNING

For good cause, the assigned judge may authorize in advance a nonconforming filing in a particular case if it complies with §801.16, Stats.

A judge assigned to a particular matter may authorize in advance the filing of particular documents in that case that do not conform to these rules if good cause is shown and they are in conformance with §801.16, Stats.

INFO

Pattern instructions may be identified by number rather than reproduced.

Pattern instructions need only be referred to by number.