2004 WI 81

 

 

 

Supreme Court of Wisconsin

 

 

 

 

 

Case No.:

02-3293

Complete Title:

 

 

GPS, Inc.,

          Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner,

     v.

Town of St. Germain,

          Defendant-Appellant.

 

 

 

REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS

Reported at: 266 Wis. 2d. 694, 667 N.W.2d 378

(Ct. App. 2003-Unpublished)

 

 

Opinion Filed:

June 22, 2004 

Submitted on Briefs:

      

Oral Argument:

February 12, 2004 

 

 

Source of Appeal:

 

 

Court:

Circuit 

 

County:

Vilas 

 

Judge:

James B. Mohr 

 

 

 

Justices:

 

 

Concurred:

      

 

Dissented:

      

 

Not Participating:

SYKES, J., did not participate. 

 

 

 

Attorneys:

 

For the plaintiff-respondent-petitioner there were briefs by Robert J. Dreps, James A. Friedman, Jennifer L. Peterson and LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by James A. Friedman.

 

For the defendant-appellant there was a brief by William P. O’Connor, Mary Beth Peranteau and Wheeler, Van Sickle & Anderson, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by William P. O’Connor.

 

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Claire Silverman, Madison, on behalf of League of Wisconsin Municipalities.

 

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Robert Horowitz, Richard K. Nordeng and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP, Madison, on behalf of Wisconsin Counties Association and Wisconsin Towns Association, and oral argument by Richard K. Nordeng.

 

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Peter C. Christianson and Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, on behalf of The Wisconsin Newspaper Association and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.

 

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Michael J. Morse, Menomonee Falls; Christopher J. Jaekels and Cook & Franke, S.C., Milwaukee; and William F. White, Brian J. Rybarik, Roisin H. Bell, and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Madison, on behalf of the Administrative and Local Government Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and oral argument by William F. White.

 

2004 WI 81

notice

This opinion is subject to further editing and modification.  The final version will appear in the bound volume of the official reports. 

No.  02-3293  

(L.C. No.

00-CV-49)

STATE OF WISCONSIN                   :

IN SUPREME COURT

 

 

GPS, Inc. 

 

          Plaintiff-Respondent-Petitioner, 

 

     v.

 

Town of St. Germain 

 

          Defendant-Appellant. 

FILED

 

JUN 22, 2004

 

Cornelia G. Clark

Clerk of Supreme Court

 

 

 

 

 

REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals.  Affirmed. 

 

1     PER CURIAM.  The court is equally divided on the question of whether the unpublished decision of the court of appeals in GPS, Inc. v. Town of St. Germain, 02-3293, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. June 24, 2003), should be affirmed or reversed.  Justice JON P. WILCOX, Justice N. PATRICK CROOKS and Justice DAVID T. PROSSER would affirm; Chief Justice SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Justice ANN WALSH BRADLEY, and Justice PATIENCE D. ROGGENSACK would reverse.  Justice DIANE S. SYKES did not participate. 

2     Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is affirmed.