MOUNT HOREB COMM. ALERT v. VILLAGE BD. OF MT. HOREB

No. 01-2217.

252 Wis.2d 713 (2002)

2002 WI App 80

643 N.W.2d 186

MOUNT HOREB COMMUNITY ALERT, Judy Patenaude, Laura Wenman, Audrey Yapp and Wayne Yapp, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VILLAGE BOARD OF MT. HOREB, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Christopher J. Blythe of Lawton & Cates, S.C., Madison.

On behalf of the defendant-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Angela A. James of Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison.

Before Dykman, Deininger and Lundsten, JJ.


¶ 1. DYKMAN, J.

This is an appeal from an order denying Mount Horeb Community Alert's petition for a writ of mandamus. The Village Board of Mt. Horeb decided to take no action on Community Alert's petition for direct legislation, which Community Alert had filed pursuant to WIS. STAT. § 9.20(1) (1999-2000).1 This statute requires a village board to either pass proposed legislation or refer the proposal to the electors. The trial...

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