Henkel v. Phillips

This appeal requires a determination of the validity of the regulation adopted by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin as U.W. 1.04(6), Wisconsin Administrative Code:

“Motor vehicles parked in a restricted parking area without a permit or motor vehicles parked in a fire zone, fire lane, loading zone, or no parking zone, and unlicensed or partially dismantled motor vehicles may, at the owner’s expense, be towed off university premises and stored . . .”

In January, 1975, Jane Henkel and Jess Anderson, employees of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, commenced a class action on…