Title: Michael S. Polsky v. Daniel E. Virnich

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

2011 WI 13 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2007AP203 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
Michael S. Polsky as receiver for Communications 
Products  
Corporation, 
          Plaintiff-Respondent-Cross-Appellant-
Petitioner, 
     v. 
Daniel E. Virnich and Jack M. Moores, 
          Defendants-Appellants-Cross-
Respondents.  
 
 
 
 
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS 
2010 WI App 20 
Reported at 323 Wis. 2d 811, 779 N.W.2d 712 
(Ct. App. 2010 – Published) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
March 2, 2011   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
February 3, 2011 
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Grant 
 
JUDGE: 
Michael Kirchman 
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: ZIEGLER, J. did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
For 
the 
plaintiff-respondent-cross-appellant-petitioner 
there were briefs by Robert J. Kasieta, Andrew J. Parrish and 
Kasieta Legal Group, LLC, Madison, and oral argument by Robert 
J. Kasieta. 
 
For the defendants-appellants-cross-respondents there were 
briefs by Donald K. Schott, Valerie L. Bailey-Rihn, James 
Richgels, Freya K. Bowen, Elyce M. Wos and Quarles & Brady LLP, 
Madison and Jeffrey O. Davis and Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, 
and oral argument by Donald K. Schott. 
 
Amicus curiae briefs were filed by John E. Knight, James E. 
Bartzen, Kirsten E. Spira and Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field LLP, 
Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin Bankers Association. 
 
 
 
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An amicus curiae brief was filed by William Haus and Haus, 
Roman and Banks, LLP, Madison, on behalf of the Sheet Metal 
Workers 
Local 
#565, 
affiliated 
with 
Sheet 
Metal 
Workers 
International Association, AFL-CIO. 
 
 
 
2011 WI 13
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.   2007AP203 
(L.C. No. 
2004CV285) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
Michael S. Polsky as receiver for 
Communications Products Corporation,  
 
Plaintiff-Respondent-Cross-Appellant-
Petitioner, 
 
     v. 
 
Daniel E. Virnich and Jack M. Moores, 
 
Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Respondents. 
 
FILED 
 
MAR 2, 2011 
 
A. John Voelker 
Acting Clerk of Supreme 
Court 
 
 
 
 
 
REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed.   
 
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PER CURIAM.   The court is equally divided on the 
question of whether the decision of the court of appeals, Polsky 
v. Virnich, 2010 WI App 20, 323 Wis. 2d 811, 779 N.W.2d 712, 
should be affirmed or reversed.  Justice DAVID T. PROSSER, 
Justice PATIENCE DRAKE ROGGENSACK and Justice MICHAEL J. 
GABLEMAN would affirm; Chief Justice SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, 
Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY and Justice N. PATRICK CROOKS would 
reverse.  Justice ANNETTE K. ZIEGLER did not participate. 
¶2 
Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed. 
No. 
2007AP203   
 
 
 
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