KATZMAN v. STATE ETHICS BOARD

No. 98-2884.

228 Wis.2d 282 (1999)

596 N.W.2d 861

JoAnn KATZMAN, and William Katzman, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. STATE of Wisconsin ETHICS BOARD, and James E. Doyle, Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided May 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the defendants-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Alan Lee, assistant attorney general with whom on the briefs was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

On behalf of the plaintiffs-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Robert H. Friebert and Matthew W. O'Neill of Friebert, Finerty & St. John, S. C., of Milwaukee.

Before Dykman, P.J., Eich and Deininger, JJ.


DEININGER, J.

The State of Wisconsin Ethics Board and Attorney General James Doyle appeal a decision and order which granted declaratory and injunctive relief to JoAnn and William Katzman.1 William is a lobbyist. The circuit court concluded that the statute prohibiting lobbyists from making contributions to incumbents and candidates for partisan elective state office, except during a specified period preceding general elections, "cannot...

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