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MAYFAIR CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH v. BALDAROTTA

No. 89-0985.

162 Wis.2d 142 (1991)

469 N.W.2d 638

MAYFAIR CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH, INC., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Nick BALDAROTTA, Legal Custodian of Records of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Defendants-Appellants-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided May 23, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendants-appellants-petitioners the cause was argued by Robert W. Larsen, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was Donald J. Hanaway, attorney general.

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief by Jeffrey A. Kremers, Diane Slomowitz and Fox, Carpenter, O'Neill & Shannon, S.C., Milwaukee and oral argument by Mr. Kremers.

WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.

The issue presented involves Wisconsin's Open Records Law. The question is whether the Department of Revenue must, in essence, reveal the name of an informant who was promised anonymity by field auditors for the Department of Revenue (Department) in exchange for information regarding certain actions by the informant's employer, Mayfair Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. (Mayfair). The Department seeks review of a court of appeals' decision which affirmed...

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