Title: GPS, Inc. v. Town of St. Germain
Citation: 2004 WI 81
Docket Number: 2002AP003293
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: June 22, 2004

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 App. 2003-Unpublished) 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. 
 
 
 
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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.   
 
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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.   
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Accordingly, the decision of the court of appeals is 
affirmed.  
 
No. 
   
 
 
 
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