Title: Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Inc. v. City of Milwaukee
Citation: 2010 WI 122
Docket Number: 2009AP001874-AC
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: October 14, 2010

2010 WI 122 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2009AP1874-AC 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, 
Inc., 
          Plaintiff-Respondent, 
     v. 
City of Milwaukee, 
          Defendant, 
9to5 National Association of Working Women, 
Milwaukee Chapter, 
          Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant. 
 
 
 
 
ON CERTIFICATION FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
October 14, 2010   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
ORAL ARGUMENT: 
October 1, 2010   
 
 
SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
COURT: 
Circuit   
 
COUNTY: 
Milwaukee   
 
JUDGE: 
Thomas R. Cooper   
 
 
 
JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING: ZIEGLER, J., did not participate.   
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
For the intervenor-defendant-appellant there were briefs by 
Barbara Z. Quindel, Richard Saks, and Hawks Quindel, S.C., 
Milwaukee, and oral argument by Barbara Z. Quindel. 
 
For the plaintiff-respondent there was a brief by Scott C. 
Beightol, Joseph Louis Olson, and Michael, Best & Friedrich, 
LLP, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Scott C. Beightol. 
 
An amicus curiae brief was filed on behalf of the Wisconsin 
Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Wisconsin Coalition 
Against Sexual Assault by Tony Gibart and the Wisconsin 
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Madison. 
 
 
 
2010 WI 122
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  2009AP1874-AC 
(L.C. No. 
2008CV18220) 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, 
Inc., 
 
          Plaintiff-Respondent, 
 
     v. 
 
City of Milwaukee, 
 
          Defendant, 
 
9to5 National Association of Working Women, 
Milwaukee Chapter, 
 
          Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant. 
 
 
 
FILED 
 
OCT 14, 2010 
 
A. John Voelker 
Acting Clerk of Supreme 
Court 
 
 
 
 
 
APPEAL from an order of the Circuit Court for Milwaukee 
County, Thomas R. Cooper, Judge.  Order granting certification 
vacated and cause remanded to the Court of Appeals.   
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   The court is equally divided whether to 
affirm or reverse the order of the circuit court.  Justice David 
T. Prosser, Justice Patience Drake Roggensack, and Justice 
Michael J. Gableman would affirm.  Chief Justice Shirley S. 
No. 
2009AP1874-AC   
 
2 
 
Abrahamson, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and Justice N. Patrick 
Crooks would reverse.  Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler did not 
participate. 
¶2 
When a certification or bypass results in a tie vote 
by this court, the better course of action is to vacate our 
decision to accept certification or bypass and remand the cause 
to the court of appeals.  State v. Richard Knutson, Inc., 191 
Wis. 2d 395, 396-97, 528 N.W.2d 430 (1995) (remanding to court 
of appeals on a tie vote on certification). 
¶3 
Accordingly, 
we 
vacate 
our 
order 
granting 
certification and remand to the court of appeals.