ASSOCIATION OF CAREER EMPLOYEES v. KLAUSER

No. 94-0632.

195 Wis.2d 602 (1995)

536 N.W.2d 478

ASSOCIATION OF CAREER EMPLOYEES, an unincorporated association, Wynn Davies, and Lloyd Riddle, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James R. KLAUSER, Secretary of the Department of Administration, Gerald Whitburn, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Human Services, Ronald R. Fiedler, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Ervin Conradt, Commissioner of Transportation, Robert H. Thompson, Administrator of the Division of Emergency Government, Jon E. Litscher, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Employment Relations, Robert Lavigna, Administrator of the Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection of the Wisconsin Department of Employment Relations, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided June 29, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Richard Thal and Cheryl Rosen Weston of Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach of Madison. There was oral argument by Richard Thal.

For the defendants-respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of James E. Doyle, attorney general, and Charles D. Hoornstra, assistant attorney general, of Madison. There was oral argument by Charles D. Hoornstra.

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


EICH, C.J.

The Association of Career Employees, an unincorporated professional association of active and retired career state employees, and two individual Wisconsin taxpayers appeal from an order dismissing their action seeking to have several appointments to state offices declared invalid for violating state civil service laws. We reverse the order.

The plaintiffs brought this action for declaratory judgment in...

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