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FREEDOM FROM REL. FOUNDATION v. THOMPSON

No. 90-2083.

164 Wis.2d 736 (1991)

476 N.W.2d 318

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC., Ann Gaylor, Dr. Michael Hakeem, Kenneth Taubert, Dan Barker, and Constance Fuller Threinen, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Tommy G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, and James R. Klauiser, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendants-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Donald J. Hanaway, attorney general, James E. Doyle, attorney general and F. Thomas Creeron, III, assistant attorney general.

For the plaintiffs-respondent the cause was submitted on the briefs of Bronson C. La Follette of Madison.

Before Eich, C.J., Gartzke, P.J., and Dykman, J.

DYKMAN, J.

Plaintiffs brought an action challenging sec. 20.505(1)(fm), Stats. (1989),1 a $100,000 legislative grant to St. Norbert College, as violating the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution2 and article I, section 18, of the Wisconsin Constitution.3 Granting judgment on the pleadings, the...

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