STATE v. AMERITECH CORP

For the plaintiff-appellant-petitioner the cause was argued by David J. Gilles, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs were James D. Jeffries, assistant attorney general, David J. Gilles, assistant attorney general and James E. Doyle, attorney general. For the defendants-respondents there was a combined brief by John R. Dawson and Foley Lardner, Milwaukee; Daniel W. Hildebrand, Dennis P. Birke and Ross Stevens, S.C., Madison and Ronald J. Greene, Marc R. Cohen and Wilmer, Cutler Pickering of Washington, D.C. and oral argument by Daniel W. Hildebrand. Amicus curiae brief was filed by Curtis A. Witynski, Legal Counsel, Madison for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities. Amicus curiae brief was filed by D.J. Weis and Habush, Habush, Davis Rottier, S.C., Rhinelander for the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.