Court Opinion

ID: 9659058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:30:54.088485+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:03.659948
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Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). The motion for rehearing by appellant Wisconsin Employment Relations Board (hereinafter WERB) is granted with respect to the following three issues:
(1) Is noncompliance with the first sentence of sec. 111.07 (4), Stats., by WERB jurisdictional?
(2) If such noncompliance is jurisdictional, should the holding of this court in its original opinion be made applicable to the instant ease but prospective only as to all other matters pending before WERB ?
(3) If such noncompliance is not jurisdictional, what should be the procedure for enforcing compliance?
Appellant WERB is granted twenty days from the date of this order in which to serve and file any additional brief which it wishes to submit to the court with respect to the above three issues; and respondents are granted fifteen days from receipt of appellant’s brief to submit their brief with respect to such three issues.
After receipt of the briefs, the court will notify counsel for the parties if the court wishes to hear oral arguments.
On rehearing the cause was submitted for the appellant on the briefs of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Beatrice Lampert, assistant attorney general, and for the respondents on the briefs of Jack A. Badtke of New Berlin, attorney, and Quarles, Herriott, Clemons, Teschner & Noelke, Laurence E. Gooding, Jr., and Peter J. Lettenberger of counsel, all of Milwaukee.
Briefs amici curiae were filed by (a) Lawton & Cates and John A. Lawton and David F. Loeffler, all of Madison, for the Wisconsin Council of County and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO), United Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin (AFL-CIO), Wisconsin Paid Firefighters Legislative Association, Wisconsin Professional Policemen’s Association, Wisconsin County Police, Deputy *485bSheriffs, and Radio Operators Association, and the Wisconsin State Employees Association (AFL-CIO); (b) Goldberg, Previant & Uelmen of Milwaukee, for the Federation of Teachers & Bakery Sales Drivers Local 344; and (c) Carston C. Koeller of Muskego.
The following opinion was filed May 4, 1967.