Jody HELGELAND, Jessie Tanner, Virginia Wolf, Carol Schumacher, Diane Schermann, Michelle Collins, Megan Sapnar, Ingrid Ankerson, Eloise McPike, Janice Barnett, Jayne Dunnum and Robin Timm, Plaintiffs-Respondents,
v.
WISCONSIN MUNICIPALITIES, Appellant-Petitioner,
Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly, Co-Appellant,
Department of Employee Trust Funds, Employee Trust Funds Board, Eric Stanchfield and Group Insurance Board, Defendants-Respondents.
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Argued October 3, 2007.
Decided February 7, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
For the appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Michael D. Dean and Michael D. Dean, LLC, Waukesha, and oral argument by Michael D. Dean.
For the plaintiffs-respondents there was a brief by Linda Roberson and Balkisle & Roberson, Madison; Laurence J. Dupis and ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc., Milwaukee; John A. Knight and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Chicago; and Rose A. Saxe, James D. Esseks and
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, and oral argument by John A. Knight.
For the defendants-respondents the cause was argued by Jennifer Sloan Lattis, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen, attorney general.
Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
¶ SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, C.J.
Eight Wisconsin municipalities, municipal school boards, and school districts (collectively "the municipalities")1 seek review of a published court of appeals decision2 affirming an order of the Circuit Court for Dane County, David T. Flanagan, III, Judge. The circuit court denied the municipalities participation as parties in the instant case brought by state employees relating...
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