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• Title: State Wisconsin Ex Rel. Newspapers Inc. V.
• Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
• Release Date : January 15, 1987
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 76 KB

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Does Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law apply when the number of members of a governmental body present at a meeting constitute less than half the membership of the full body? We are asked to interpret a statute that does not specifically answer yes or no to that question. Some statutes of other states expressly apply only to meetings of a quorum of the membership of a governmental body; 1 statutes of other states expressly apply whenever two or more or three or more members of a governmental body meet. 2 Wisconsin's Open Meeting Law is silent on this point, thereby leaving the interpretation of legislative intent to this court. Newspapers Inc. and Karen S. Rothe (Newspapers Inc.) appeal, arguing that the Open Meeting Law applies to a meeting held by four Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Commissioners (Commissioners) to discuss the operating budget and the capital budget of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Commission (Commission). Passage of these measurers required a two-thirds vote. Although the four members present at the meeting did not constitute a majority of the eleven member Commission, these four did have the power if they so chose to determine the parent body's course of action regarding the budget because they could, by voting together, block the adoption of any proposed budget of the Commission.

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