Wisconsin Education Ass'n Council v. Wisconsin State Elections Board

¶1.

The Wisconsin State Elections Board, and its individual members, appeal a judgment granting declaratory relief to the Wisconsin Education Association Council, Political Action Committee. The Board claims that the trial court erred in granting a declaratory judgment because there is no "justiciable controversy" on the present facts. We agree and, accordingly, we reverse the appealed judgment and remand for the entry of a judgment dismissing WEAC-PAC's complaint.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2. The seeds of the present litigation were sown in the summer of 1996 when the personal campaign committees of two…