Milwaukee Police Ass’n. v. Bd. of Fire and Police Commissioners of the City of Milwaukee

Ct. of Appeals dismissed as moot appeal by plaintiffs-employee and employee’s union of Dist. Ct.’s order granting defendant-employer’s motion for summary judgment in action alleging that defendant’s termination of employee violated her due process rights where employee signed complete settlement and release of her claim prior to oral argument. While terms of agreement allowed for appeal to continue as “declaratory judgment action only,” employee could not continue to prosecute the appeal where she no longer had personal stake in lawsuit. Moreover, union lacked standing to bring instant lawsuit in its own right since complaint did not allege any injury to union, and although union initially had associational standing to bring instant lawsuit and file appeal, employee’s settlement rendered union’s appeal moot where employee had no personal stake in lawsuit and union did not have any other union member who had any similar redressable claim.