MILWAUKEE POLICE v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

No. 2019AP1319.

986 N.W.2d 801 (2023)

2023 WI 20

MILWAUKEE POLICE SUPERVISORS ORGANIZATION, John Cwiklinski, Cheryl Ferrill, Kimberlee Foster, Dale Grudzina, April Hoffman, Joel Kujawa, Christopher Lehner, William McKeown, Jason Mucha, Brenda Nogalski, Tony Snow, Albert Carl Sunn, Jr., William Welter, Mark Zaremba and Joe Farina, Plaintiffs-Respondents, Milwaukee Professional Firefighters' Association Local 215, Intervenor-Respondent-Petitioner, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE and Milwaukee Employees' Retirement System, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: March 21, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the intervenor-respondent-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Christopher J. MacGillis , Wauwatosa, Sean E. Lees , and MacGillis Wiemer, LLC. There was an oral argument by Christopher J. MacGillis and Sean E. Lees.

For the defendants-appellants, there was a brief filed by Patrick J. McClain , assistant city attorney. There was an oral argument by Patrick J. McClain.

REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J., delivered the majority opinion for a unanimous Court.


¶1 The Milwaukee City Charter entitles firefighters injured on the job to duty disability retirement (DDR) benefits, which provide monthly wage replacement payments to firefighters unable to continue active service. As with all pension benefits provided to City of Milwaukee employees, the City of Milwaukee Employees...

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