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WIS. STATE JOURNAL v. UW-PLATTEVILLE

No. 90-0214.

160 Wis.2d 31 (1990)

465 N.W.2d 266

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, and Terry Shelton, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE, and William Chmurny, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided December 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendants-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Donald J. Hanaway, attorney general, and Robert W. Larsen, assistant attorney general.

For the plaintiffs-respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of Michael P. May and Mark J. Steichen of Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field of Madison.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Dykman and Sundby, JJ.

DYKMAN, J.

This is a mandamus action commenced under the Wisconsin public records law, secs. 19.31-19.39, Stats. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville and William Chmurny (defendants) appeal a trial court judgment granting a writ of mandamus compelling them to allow the Wisconsin State Journal and Terry Shelton (plaintiffs) access to documents compiled in a faculty investigation. The trial court concluded that the records custodian had not stated with sufficient...

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