HUTSON v. STATE PERSONNEL COM'N

No. 01-2959.

263 Wis.2d 612 (2003)

2003 WI 97

665 N.W.2d 212

Vera HUTSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin PERSONNEL COMMISSION, Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 8, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-respondent-petitioner the cause was argued by David C. Rice, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was Peggy A. Lautenschlager, attorney general.

For the plaintiff-appellant there was a brief by Alan C. Olson and Alan C. Olson & Associates, S.C., New Berlin, and oral argument by Alan C. Olson.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Richard Briles Moriarty, assistant attorney general, and Peggy A. Lautenschlager, attorney general, on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.


¶ 1. JON P. WILCOX, J.

This case involves interpretation of Wisconsin's so-called "whistleblower" law. The State of Wisconsin Personnel Commission (Commission) seeks review of a published court of appeals decision, Hutson v. Personnel Commission, 2002 WI App 249, 257 Wis.2d 900, 654 N.W.2d 465, which reversed a circuit court judgment upholding the Commission's dismissal of an action...

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