Kocken v. Wisconsin Council 40

732 N.W.2d 828 (2007)

2007 WI 72

Dennis KOCKEN, Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

WISCONSIN COUNCIL 40, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and Brown County Mental Health Center Employees, Local 1901, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellants.

No. 2005AP2742.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Argued January 16, 2007.

Decided June 14, 2007.

For the defendants-appellants there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by Bruce F. Ehlke, Danielle L. Carne, and Hawks Quindel Ehlke & Perry, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by Bruce F. Ehlke.

For the respondent there was a brief (in the court of appeals) by Thomas P. Godar and Whyte Hirschboeck…