Wisconsin Supreme Court, 2025

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski
Wisconsin Supreme Court · Decided July 2, 2025
2025 WI 33

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski

Opinion

2025 WI 33

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, ET AL., Petitioners, v. JOEL URMANSKI, ET AL., Respondents.

No. 2024AP330-OA Filed July 2, 2025

The Court entered the following order on this date: On July 2, 2024, this court granted the petition of petitioners, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin et al., for leave to commence an original action.

Given our decision in Kaul v. Urmanski, 2025 WI 32, ___ Wis. 2d ___, ___ N.W.3d ___, which is also being released on this date, the court has now concluded that this original action should be dismissed. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that this original action is dismissed; and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all pending motions and the proposed stipulation are dismissed as moot.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WIS. V. URMANSKI JUSTICE ZIEGLER Statement Statement of ANNETTE KINGSLAND ZIEGLER, J., with whom REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J., joins.

¶1 I agree with the court that this case does not belong before us.

The original action petition should not have been granted in the first place, as explained by the dissents to the order granting the original action petition. Planned Parenthood of Wis. v. Urmanski, No. 2024AP330-OA, unpublished order at 5–10 (Wis. July 2, 2024) (Rebecca Grassl Bradley, J., dissenting); id. at 10–12 (Hagedorn, J., dissenting) (order reprinted below).

¶2 Also, it is interesting that the court appears to pick and choose when to provide reasoning for dismissing a case. Sometimes it says nothing.

See Van Oudenhoven v. DOJ, 2025 WI 25, ___Wis. 2d ___, ___ N.W.3d ___ (per curiam). Other times it explains why the case is being dismissed, such as declaring the case moot.

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