STATE EX REL. BRIGGS & STRATTON v. NOLL

No. 80-1098-OA.

100 Wis.2d 650 (1981)

302 N.W.2d 487

STATE EX REL. BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, A. O. Smith Corporation, and Appleton Electric Corporation, Petitioners, v. Joseph NOLL, Secretary, Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations, John R. Byrnes, Administrator, Worker's Compensation Division, DILHR, and the Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioners there were briefs by Elwin J. Zarwell, Peter W. Bunde, Thomas Armstrong and Quarles & Brady of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Thomas Armstrong and Peter W. Bunde.

For the respondents the cause was argued by Gordon Samuelsen, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.


STEINMETZ, J.

This is an original action before this court. In dispute are the date at which certain statutorily authorized worker's compensation benefit increases take effect and the constitutional authority of the legislature in choosing that date. The facts in this case are not in dispute, the parties having filed a stipulation of facts with this court.

This court has jurisdiction over original actions by virtue of Art. VII, sec. 2 of the Wisconsin Constitution...

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