Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: City Council, District IV Court of Appeals, Dodgeville, Dodgeville City Council, Edwin James, Hocking, lawsuit, Murphy Desmond Lawyers SC, Schmit, Supreme Court, Trachtenberg, Van Horn, Wallace Rogers, Wisconsin Supreme Court
By Paul Snyder
A homeowner’s 18-year pursuit of payback from Dodgeville has reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will decide if Glen Hocking filed his water runoff lawsuit four years too late.
Supreme Court justices Wednesday will hear oral arguments in a four-year-old lawsuit filed by Hocking against Dodgeville over a 1992 residential subdivision project.
Hocking sued Dodgeville [...]
Published: February 26, 2010
Tags: lawsuit, Mort's Concrete, Mortimer, Sylvester, Wisconsin National Guard
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a concrete company has agreed to settle allegations it improperly reduced a Wisconsin National Guard soldier’s responsibilities after he returned from Iraq.
According to the lawsuit, Rocco Sylvester Jr., of Prairie Du Sac, worked as a foreman at Rio-based Mort’s Concrete, Inc., when he was called to Iraq in [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
Tags: appeals court, Beiriger, Dan-Ash Trucking, DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC, Holmes, Ken Voss, lawsuit, Leavell, Mathy Construction, RT&T Trucking
Sean Ryan
Mathy Construction Co. Inc. failed Thursday to convince an appeals court that a subcontractor should pay for a bicyclist killed on a project.
“This isn’t your classic case where the general gets sued because of the sins of the subcontractor,” said Jeff Leavell, attorney representing project subcontractor Dan-Ash Trucking Inc., Silva, Ill. “The general had [...]
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, lawsuit, Meadows Water Trust, Milwaukee Water Works, New Berlin, radium, water
New Berlin will pay a $45,000 fine to the state because the city water utility did not meet deadlines to remove radium from its drinking water system.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources six years ago gave New Berlin until 2006 to get its drinking water into compliance with federal radium limits. High doses of radium [...]
Published: February 22, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, developer, Dousman, D’Antuono, housing, lawsuit, permit, Richard Herr, runoff, settlement, Stoneridge Associates, Stoneridge Associates LP, storm water
By Sean Ryan
Developer Richard Herr will pay the state $240,000 to settle a storm water runoff lawsuit he claims unfairly targeted his 300-acre property in Dousman.
“The long and short of it is they fined me because they thought I had money,” Herr said of the state Department of Natural Resources. “It has nothing to do [...]
Published: February 19, 2010
Tags: Kapanke, lawsuit, McFarland Brooks, Michael Davis, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, Rickard, Sierra Club, St. Croix River, St. Croix Valley Interstate Group, Stillwater Bridge, U.S. Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
By Paul Snyder
The Stillwater Bridge project, already in the shadow of an environmental lawsuit, missed out on $300 million in stimulus money that would have fueled a construction start this year.
Instead, the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of transportation will continue planning for a 2013 start, said MnDOT spokeswoman Mary McFarland Brooks. The bridge spans the [...]
Published: February 17, 2010
Tags: Charter Street power plant, Clean Air Act, David Miller, DNR, Feyerherm, lawsuit, pollution, power plant, Sierra Club, Steffes, UW System, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Paul Snyder
A Sierra Club lawsuit seeking the results of a state review of four campus power plants could be the beginning of a massive drain on the budgets of university building projects.
The Sierra Club wants to know whether projects completed since 1995 at University of Wisconsin System power plants on the campuses of UW-Eau [...]
Published: February 17, 2010
Tags: Dave Wheaton, Edgerton Contractors, erosion control, fee, flood-control project, inspection, lawsuit, Lewandowski, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Schimmel, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
By Sean Ryan
Edgerton Contractors Inc., which was on the losing end of a Wednesday appeals court decision, still could fight to recoup a $43,900 fee it paid Wauwatosa on a 2006 project.
The Oak Creek-based contractor was the general on a $16.9 million Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District flood-control project in Wauwatosa. The contractor paid Wauwatosa $43,900 [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: 9to5, appeal, lawsuit, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Milwaukee County Circuit Court, National Association of Working Women, sick leave, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Wisconsin Court of Appeals District Four
A Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Thursday morning will publish its decision on the case challenging Milwaukee’s sick leave law.
The case is over a city of Milwaukee law that, if enacted, would require workers get at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked in Milwaukee.
Companies with fewer than 10 workers [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: Clean Air Act, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, lawsuit, power plants, Sierra Club
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Sierra Club is asking a judge to force the Department of Natural Resources to release public records related to alleged Clean Air Act violations at state-run power plants.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the environmental group alleges the DNR is violating the state’s open records law by failing to release the [...]
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