Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-24 15:22:57.112224+00
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            SUPREME COURT               OF   WISCONSIN
                                                          NOTICE
                                              This order is subject to further
                                              editing and modification.    The
                                              final version will appear in the
                                              bound volume of the official
                                              reports.

No.   2020AP2081-AC & 2020AP2109-AC

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Muskego
Area Chamber of Commerce and New Berlin Chamber
of Commerce and Visitors Bureau,

           Plaintiffs-Respondents-Petitioners,

      v.
                                                                   FILED
Tony Evers, in his official capacity as
Governor of Wisconsin, Karen Timberlake, in her
                                                             JAN 23, 2023
official capacity as Interim Secretary of the
Wisconsin Department of Health Services and                     Sheila T. Reiff
Joel Brennan, in his official capacity as                   Clerk of Supreme Court
Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of                          Madison, WI

Administration,

           Defendants,

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

           Intervenor-Appellant.

      The Court entered the following order on this date:
      ¶1   Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce filed a motion for

reconsideration   of   our   decision   in   Wisconsin     Manufacturers         &

Commerce v. Evers, 2022 WI 38, 401 Wis. 2d 699, 974 N.W.2d 753.

The State Defendants and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel opposed

WMC's motion.     We deny the motion for reconsideration without
costs.
                                               No.   2020AP2081-AC & 2020AP2109-AC

     ¶2    We nevertheless file this memorandum on the motion to

address one of WMC's arguments, namely that this Court should

clarify that footnote 9 of the court of appeals' decision has no

precedential value.        See Wis. Mfrs. & Commerce v. Evers, 2021 WI

App 35, ¶24 n.9, 398 Wis. 2d 164, 960 N.W.2d 442; see also Wis.

Sup. Ct. IOP III.J ("A motion for reconsideration may result in

the court's issuing a corrective or explanatory memorandum to its

opinion without changing the original mandate.").                   We conclude

that, in this case, footnote 9 of the court of appeals' decision

has no precedential value.           We leave for another day the issue of

whether the rule from Blum v. 1st Auto & Cas. Ins. Co., 2010 WI

78, ¶46, 326 Wis. 2d 729, 786 N.W.2d 78, that "[u]nless this court

explicitly states otherwise, a court of appeals opinion overruled

by this court no longer retains any precedential value," should be

extended   to   cover      the   present     situation.     See   also   Showers

Appraisals,     LLC   v.    Musson    Bros.,    2013   WI   79,   ¶71   n.4,   350

Wis. 2d 509, 835 N.W.2d 226 (Crooks, J., concurring).

     ¶3    IT IS ORDERED that the motion for reconsideration is
denied without costs.

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