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STATE EX REL. NEWSPAPERS v. SHOWERS

No. 85-0471.

135 Wis.2d 77 (1987)

398 N.W.2d 154

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. NEWSPAPERS INC., a Wisconsin corporation, and Karen S. Rothe, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Petitioners, v. Dean A. SHOWERS, Edwin J. Laszewski, Jr., Mary M. Wilkinson and Theodore J. Fadrow, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided January 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants-petitioners there were briefs by Dennis L. Fisher and Meissner, Tierney, Ehlinger & Whipp, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Fisher.

For the defendants-respondents the cause was argued by Patrick Halligan, senior staff attorney, with whom on the brief was Michael J. McCabe, director of legal services, for Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by Linda M. Clifford and La Follette & Sinykin, Madison, for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.

BABLITCH J.

Does Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law apply when the number of members of a governmental body present at a meeting constitute less than half the membership of the full body? We are asked to interpret a statute that does not specifically answer "yes" or "no" to that question. Some statutes of other states expressly apply only to meetings of a quorum of the membership of a governmental body;1 statutes of other states expressly apply...

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