NORANDA EXPLORATION, INC. v. OSTROM

No. 81-236.

113 Wis.2d 612 (1983)

335 N.W.2d 596

NORANDA EXPLORATION, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, v. M.E. OSTROM, State Geologist, Bronson C. La Follette, Attorney General, and Carroll D. Besadny, Secretary of Department of Natural Resources, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-respondent-petitioner there were briefs by C. Gordon Paulson, Edward W. Mouw and Korth, Rodd, Mouw, Johnson & Mustacci, S.C., and Sommer & Schroeder, S.C., Rhinelander, and oral argument by Richard Sommer.

For the defendants-appellants the cause was argued by Raymond Roder, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.

Amicus Curiae brief was filed by R. Norman Cramer, Jr., with whom on the brief was William H. Mellor III, acting president and chief legal officer, Denver, Colorado, for Mountain States Legal Foundation and the Minerals Exploration Coalition.


Reversing 107 Wis.2d 205, 320 N.W.2d 530 (Ct. App.)

LOUIS J. CECI, J.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals, Noranda Exploration, Inc. v. Ostrom, 107 Wis.2d 205, 320 N.W.2d 530 (Ct App. 1982), which reversed a judgment of the circuit court of Oneida county, HONORABLE TIMOTHY L. VOCKE, presiding...

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