By: Derek Hawkins//July 18, 2016//
WI Supreme Court
Case Name: Lands’ End, Inc. v. City of Dodgeville
Case No.: 2015AP179
Focus: Statutory Interpretation – Judgment Interest
Use of interest rate currently in effect as per the amended statute when judgment recovered was proper.
“Deciding when a statute applies retroactively is not always easy; it is not a mechanical task. “The conclusion that a particular rule operates ‘retroactively’ comes at the end of a process of judgment concerning the nature and extent of the change in the law and the degree of connection between the operation of the new rule and a relevant past event.” Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244, 265 (1994). “
Concurring: ZIEGLER, J. concurs (Opinion filed)
Dissenting: PROSSER, J. and ROGGENSACK, C. J. dissent (Opinion filed).