Wisconsin State Law Library

The update includes revisions of ten existing jury instructions, as well as one new instruction. New to the set is:

• JI-Civil 358 Subsequent remedial measures.

The following instructions have been updated:

• 1023 Medical Negligence
• 1023.5 Professional Negligence: Legal - Status of Lawyer as a Specialist is not in Dispute
• 1023.6 Negligence of Insurance Agent
• 1500 Cause
• 1900.4 Safe Place Statute: Injury to Frequenter: Negligence of Employer or Owner of a Place of Employment
• 2400 Misrepresentation: Bases for Liability and Damages
• 2418 Unfair Trade Practice: Untrue, Deceptive, or Misleading Representation: Wis. Stat. § 100.18(1)
• 3200 Products Liability: Law Note
• 5001 Paternity: Child of Unmarried Woman
• 8035 Highway or Sidewalk Defect or Insufficiency

Earlier this year the Library partnered with the Office of Judicial Education to debut free access to the Wisconsin Jury Instructions on our website. While updated instructions can be downloaded at any time from our website, many readers may wish to keep their print sets up-to-date. Updating an existing set of print instructions works just as it has in prior years.

Download and print the fifty-second release. Blank pages have been inserted to make double sided printing easier. File new and updated instructions, along with the updated table of cases and index in your print set. A complete, printable file of all the current Civil Jury Instructions and finding aids is also available.

For information on the status of the Committee's work, please contact Bryce Pierson at bryce.pierson@wicourts.gov.

This is a result of a cooperative effort between the University of Wisconsin Law School, the State Law Library, and the Wisconsin Court System's Office of Judicial Education. You can read more in this press release: https://www.wicourts.gov/news/view.jsp?id=1307

All three Jury Instructions committees of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference will continue their standard schedules to develop instructions. New instructions will be published online. The Office of Judicial Education will continue to provide update releases indicating revised or new jury instructions for each set.

Every instruction set on the website includes a table of contents with links to download current instructions. Indexes and tables are also linked from each set. On individual instruction pages (pictured below), get more information about each instruction including a model citation, download links, relevant dates, and related cases and statutes from the case and statutory comparison tables. 

Each instruction set includes an update page, which links to filing releases for recent years.

• Children updates
• Civil updates
• Criminal updates

For those needing to update print sets of instructions, tools are available to help. When an instruction set is updated, a filing release will be created and posted on the set's updates page. Users can use the latest update release to print off new instructions to update their set. In addition, annually-updated printable versions of tables and indexes are linked at the top of each index and table page. A complete, printable copy of each instruction set is linked as a single file from each main instruction page, above the table of contents.