Official opinions of the Attorney General of Wisconsin: sporadic from 1902 through 1918 and annual thereafter, state printer, 1902– (The Organic Law
of the Territory of Wisconsin allowed for the appointment by the Governor of an Attorney General, a power first exercised in 1836. The 1948
Constitution provided for an Office of the Attorney General. Only in 1901, however, was a legal requirement enacted providing for periodic reports. A series of
biennial reports, which included the opinions, began with a 1901-02 volume and continued through the final 9th biennial, 1916-18. In 1913 a separate
series entitled “Opinions” and having successive volume numbering began. From 1913-1918 reports were contained in some of these volumes up to Vol. VII,
when their publication ceased altogether. Although this successive volume numbering of the opinions continues to date, since only four of the volumes
in the series {1-2 & 6-7} overlap calendar years, with all the rest corresponding to a calendar year, LLMC has elected in this case to follow its
usual practice of organizing the A.G opinions by year. The fact that for many of the states there were differing patterns of publication for the A.G
reports and opinions makes for a confusing literature. To minimize confusion in its online offerings, LLMC has chosen to group all of the U.S. state
attorney generals’ reports and opinions in two separate series for each state. For the Wisconsin A.G. Reports, see the separate Reports series elsewhere
on this site.)
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