WEST v. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

No. 98-1693.

230 Wis.2d 71 (1999)

601 N.W.2d 307

Robin WEST, Petitioner-Respondent, v. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Respondent-Appellant, BOARD OF REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided August 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the respondent-appellant, the cause was submitted on the brief of James E. Doyle, attorney general, and Joseph R. Thomas, assistant attorney general. There was oral argument by Joseph R. Thomas.

On behalf of the petitioner-respondent, there was a brief and oral argument by John C. Talis of Lawton & Cates, S.C. of Madison.

Before Brown, P.J., Nettesheim and Snyder, JJ.


BROWN, P.J.

When a campus police officer is assigned to perform the full range of patrol duties and yet is prohibited from carrying a firearm, is the potential for violent encounters a "recognized hazard likely to cause death or serious physical harm" of the type meant to be addressed by Wisconsin's public employee safety and health statute, § 101.055, STATS.?1 We conclude, as a matter of...

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