Casanova Retail Liquor Store, Inc. v. State

The State appeals an order that reinstated Casanova Liquor Store, Inc., as a Wisconsin corporation even though Casanova failed to file for reinstatement by the secretary of state within the statutorily allotted time period.1 The circuit court granted the order on the grounds that § 180.1423, Stats.,2 unambiguously gives the power to reinstate dissolved corporations in its discretion even if the application for *951reinstatement was untimely.3 Because we conclude that § 180.1423(3) does not allow a circuit court to reinstate a corporation that failed to timely file an application for…