Legal Opinion
Mount Horeb Community Alert v. Village Board of Mt. Horeb
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided February 28, 2002No. 01-2217PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDykman, J.
¶ 1. This is an appeal from an order denying Mount Horeb Community Alert's petition for a writ of mandamus. The Village Board of Mt. Horeb decided to take no action on Community Alert's petition for direct legislation, which Community Alert had filed pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 9.20(1) (1999-2000). This statute requires a village board to either pass proposed legislation or refer the proposal to the electors. The trial court concluded that the proposed ordinance conflicted with a state statute, which is one of the common law exceptions to § 9.20(1), and denied the writ. We conclude that the…
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