A court of record may impose a remedial or punitive sanction for contempt of court under this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 785.02
Power of court to punish for contempt of court
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Ndina (2009)
Most recently applied in Timothy Zignego v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (April 2021)
1979 c. 257
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.