STOUGHTON TRAILERS, INC. v. LIRC

No. 2004AP1550.

735 N.W.2d 477 (2007)

2007 WI 105

STOUGHTON TRAILERS, INC., Petitioner-Appellant-Petitioner, v. LABOR AND INDUSTRY REVIEW COMMISSION and Douglas Scott Geen, Respondents-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Amy O. Bruchs, Scott C. Baumbach, and Michael Best & Friedrich L.L.P., Madison, and oral argument by Amy O. Bruchs.

For the respondents-respondents Labor and Industry Review Commission, there were briefs by David C. Rice, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was Peggy A. Lautenschlager, and oral argument by David C. Rice.

For the respondents-respondents Douglas Scott Geen, there were briefs by Victor M. Arellano, John C. Carlson, Jr., Matthew P. White, and Lawton & Cates, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by John C. Carlson, Jr.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Monica Murphy, Milwaukee, on behalf of the Disability Rights of Wisconsin.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Laura A. Lindner, C. Ann Martin, and Lindner & Marsack, S.C., Milwaukee, on behalf of the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Inc., there was oral argument by Laura Lindner.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Melissa A. Cherney, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.


¶ 1 LOUIS B. BUTLER, JR., J.

Stoughton Trailers, Inc. ("Stoughton") seeks review of a published decision of the court of appeals1 affirming a decision of the Labor and Industry Review Commission ("LIRC"), which concluded that Stoughton refused to reasonably accommodate Douglas Scott Geen's ("Geen") disability, migraine headaches, within the meaning of Wis. Stat. § 111.34(1)(b) (2005-06),2 and terminated...

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