I'd noted from time to time that public advocacy attorneys at private expense have been picking up the public health slack sacrificed
by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as Scott Walker withdraws his dumbed-down "chamber of commerce mentality" agency from its public health regulatory role.
So it's a good sign that the courts are beginning to recognize this unfair cost-shifting by ruling in one of these recent cases that the DNR has to pay the public advocates' legal bills:
So it's a good sign that the courts are beginning to recognize this unfair cost-shifting by ruling in one of these recent cases that the DNR has to pay the public advocates' legal bills:
A Dane County judge has directed the Department of Natural Resources to pay nearly $45,000 in legal fees to two conservation organizations in a case involving a large dairy farm expansion in northeastern Wisconsin.
Dane County Circuit Judge John W. Markson ruled on Friday the DNR should pay Clean Wisconsin and Midwest Environmental Advocates $44,985 for their legal work for fighting plans by Kinnard Farms Inc. to add more than 2,000 cattle to their dairy herd in Kewaunee County.