Court Opinion

ID: 9517561
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:20:52.801541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:01.193063
License: Public Domain

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(concurring). Zinn has survived the first test of whether she states a claim, but many legal questions necessary to resolve the action remain undecided, see p. 427, note 5, and it appears that proof of damage will be difficult. The trial court may determine, in interpreting and applying sec. 227.12 (1), (2), (5) to this case, that the DNR ruling might never have taken effect and that because of DNR’s right to reconsider its ruling and its granting of petition to reconsider, the DNR ruling was always subject to modification and therefore never attained the degree of “finality” needed to render it a “taking.” The majority suggests that even after the DNR granted Zinn’s petition for rehearing, which may have ended a “taking” of her title, there remained a cloud on the title. The majority does not determine whether any asserted cloud on Zinn’s title constitutes a taking or can otherwise be the basis of a damages award.