Court Opinion

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2023 WI 42

                  SUPREME COURT                OF    WISCONSIN
CASE NO.:                 2021AP635

COMPLETE TITLE:           Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc.,
                                    Plaintiff-Appellant,
                               v.
                          Employers Insurance Company of Wausau,
                                    Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner.

                            REVIEW OF DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
                            Reported at 404 Wis. 2d 337, 979 N.W.2d 627
                                      PDC No: 2022 WI App 45

OPINION FILED:            May 24, 2023
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS:
ORAL ARGUMENT:            March 15, 2023

SOURCE OF APPEAL:
   COURT:                 Circuit
   COUNTY:                Waukesha
   JUDGE:                 Ralph M. Ramirez

JUSTICES:
Per curiam.
NOT PARTICIPATING:
BRIAN HAGEDORN, J., withdrew from participation.
ANNETTE KINGSLAND ZIEGLER, C.J., did not participate.

ATTORNEYS:

       For the defendant-respondent-petitioner, there were briefs
filed by Michael J. Cohen, Pamela J. Tillman, James M. Sosnoski,
Caleb R. Gerbitz, and Meisser, Tierney, Fisher & Nichols, S.C.,
Milwaukee. There was an oral argument by Michael J. Cohen.

       For the plaintiff-appellant, there was a brief filed by Lee
M. Seese, Kimberly A. Streff, and Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP,
Milwaukee,          and   Jeffrey     S.   Raskin,   David   S.   Cox,   David   B.
Salmons, Brendan J. Anderson and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. There was an
oral argument by David B. Salmons.
    An amicus curiae brief was filed by Heidi L. Vogt, Janet E.
Cain and von Briesen & Roper, s.c., Milwaukee, for the Complex
Insurance Claims Litigation Association.

    An amicus curiae brief was filed by Raj Patel, Robert J.
Gilbert, Michael L. Huggins, and Latham & Watkins, LLP, Chicago,
Boston, and San Diego, for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
and Emerson Electric Company.

    An amicus curiae brief was filed by     James A. Friedman,
Daniel C.W. Narvey, and Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Madison, for the
Wisconsin Insurance Alliance.

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                                                                        NOTICE
                                                         This opinion is subject to further
                                                         editing and modification.   The final
                                                         version will appear in the bound
                                                         volume of the official reports.
No.     2021AP635
(L.C. No.   2019CV1307)

STATE OF WISCONSIN                                   :             IN SUPREME COURT

Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc.,

             Plaintiff-Appellant,
                                                                             FILED
       v.                                                              MAY 24, 2023

Employers Insurance Company of Wausau,                                    Sheila T. Reiff
                                                                       Clerk of Supreme Court

             Defendant-Respondent-Petitioner.

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

       ¶1    PER    CURIAM.       Employers    Insurance           Company       of   Wausau

(Wausau) petitioned for review of a court of appeals decision,

Pepsi-Cola     Metropolitan        Bottling        Company,      Inc.       v.   Employers

Insurance    of     Wausau,      2022   WI   App     45,     404     Wis. 2d 337,        979

N.W.2d 627,        which    reversed    a    circuit        court      order      granting

summary judgment for Wausau and denying partial summary judgment

for Pepsi.     No three justices reach agreement to either affirm,

reverse, or affirm in part and reverse in part the court of

appeals decision.          Because the court did not reach a majority as

to    the   mandate,       the   decision     of    the      court     of    appeals       is

affirmed.
       ¶2    BRIAN HAGEDORN, J., withdrew from participation.
                                               No.   2021AP635

¶3   ANNETTE KINGSLAND ZIEGLER, C.J., did not participate.

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