WISCONSIN PROSPERITY NETWORK v. MYSE

No. 2010AP1937-OA.

810 N.W.2d 356 (2012)

2012 WI 27

WISCONSIN PROSPERITY NETWORK, The MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., Americans for Prosperity, Reverend David King, Concerned Citizens of Iowa County, Inc., Daniel O. Curran, Oriannah Paul, The Sheboygan Liberty Coalition, Kimberly J. Simac and Northwoods Patriot Group, Inc., Petitioners, v. Gordon MYSE, Chair of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, Thomas Barland it's Vice-Chair; each of its other members, Michael Brennan, Thomas Cane, Gerald C. Nichol, David G. Deininger and Kevin Kennedy its Director & General Counsel; each only in his official capacity, Respondents, Mary Bell and Wisconsin Education Association Council, Intervenors-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 19, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioners there were briefs filed by James R. Troupis , Sarah E. Troupis , Christ T. Troupis and Troupis Law Office LLC, Middleton, Richard M. Esenberg and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Milwaukee, and Michael D. Dean and First Freedoms Foundation, Inc., Waukesha, and oral argument by Richard M. Esenberg .

For the respondents the cause was argued by Thomas C. Bellavia , assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general.

For the intervenors-respondents there was a brief filed by Robert H. Friebert , Matthew W. O'Neill , Jeremy P. Levinson and Friebert, Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, and Kurt Kobelt and Wisconsin Education Association Counsel, Madison, and oral argument by Matthew W. O'Neill .

Amicus curiae briefs were filed on behalf of the Center for Media and Democracy by Ben Manski of Liberty Tree Foundation, Madison, The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, by J. Adam Skaggs , Mark Ladov , and Mimi Marziani of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, and Edwin J. Hughes and Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, the Center for Competitive Politics by Mitchell R. Olson and Axley Brynelson, LLP, Madison, and the Institute for Justice by Lee U. McGrath , Anthony B. Sanders , and Jason A. Adkins of the Institute for Justice Minnesota Chapter, Minneapolis.


PER CURIAM.

¶ 1 On August 9, 2010, a petition for an original action was filed by Wisconsin Prosperity Network, Inc., The MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., Americans for Prosperity, Reverend David King, Concerned Citizens of Iowa County, Inc., Daniel O. Curran, Oriannah Paul, The Sheboygan Liberty Coalition, Kimberly J. Simac, and Northwoods Patriot Group, Inc. A response was filed by Gordon Myse, Thomas Barland, Michael Brennan, Thomas Cane, Gerald...

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