State ex rel. Newspapers, Inc. v. Showers

Newspapers, Inc. and Karen S. Rothe (Newspapers) appeal from a judgment denying their motions for summary judgment and granting summary judgment to four members of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Commission: Dean A. Showers, Edwin J. Laszewski, Jr., Mary M. Wilkinson and Theodore J. Fadrow (commissioners). Newspapers asserts trial court error in interpreting the open meetings law, secs. 19.81-19.98, Stats. Because under the facts of this case we conclude that the legislature did not intend the gathering of the four commissioners on December 1, 1983, (after the adjournment of a regular…