State Ex Rel. Briggs & Stratton Corp. v. Noll

The statutory amendments in question apply to injuries incurred between January 1, 1980 and May 12, 1980. Thus they have some retroactive effect.1 I reject the majority’s conclusion that the statutory amendments violate Art. I, see. 1, Wis. Const.,2 and the petitioners’ (employ*662ers’) contention that the statutory amendments violate the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution or the contract clause of the federal constitution.3 Therefore I dissent.

The retroactive effect of these statutory amendments is to alter duties incident to injuries occurring before the amendments were enacted.…