State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County

{concurring).

¶ 58. I join the mandate, but I return once again to this court's approach(es) to statutory interpretation. It is important, as I have written before, that litigants, *671lawyers, legislators, courts, and the people of Wisconsin know and understand our approach to legislative interpretation.1

¶ 59. This opinion makes what I consider a significant advance in explaining what the court is actually doing in statutory interpretation.21 think, however, it will be difficult to understand and apply parts of this opinion because it works at cross purposes in several respects. For example, the…