About Stoddard Law Office and Attorney Stoddard

Stoddard Law Office is owned by Attorney Glenn M. Stoddard. Attorney Stoddard has successfully represented clients in complex legal matters throughout the State of Wisconsin and other states. His practice emphasizes civil rights and environmental law. He typically handles cases involving civil rights and constitutional law, environmental and natural resources law, land use and zoning law, local government law, employment law and discrimination, and state and federal civil litigation. Attorney Stoddard often represents individuals, citizen groups, local governments, small businesses, Native American Indian Tribes, and nonprofit organizations.

Attorney Stoddard is experienced in all aspects of civil litigation, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. He has represented clients in numerous trials and hearings in Wisconsin’s state and federal courts, as well as before appellate courts, administrative agencies, and county and local governments. Several of his cases have resulted in published appellate court decisions.

Attorney Stoddard received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1994. He also holds a Master’s of Science (M.S.) degree in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984), and a Bachelor’s of Science (B.S.) degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1980). Before practicing law, Attorney Stoddard worked for over ten years in professional positions relating to land use planning, zoning, natural resource management, and public policy.Attorney Stoddard has been admitted to practice before the Wisconsin Supreme Court and all Wisconsin state courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and the American Bar Association (ABA).

Prior to establishing his own practice in 2005, Attorney Stoddard practiced law in Madison, Wisconsin, as a shareholder in the law firm of Garvey & Stoddard, S.C.

Attorney Stoddard has been listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America. He was named a “Super Lawyer” by Wisconsin Super Lawyers Magazine in 2006. Attorney Stoddard has received several awards for his public interest and legal work, including the 1991 Outstanding Citizen Advocate Award from the Center for Public Representation; the 2001 Local Guardian Award from the River Alliance of Wisconsin; the 2005 Environmental Advocate of the Year Award from the Clean Water Action Council of Northeastern Wisconsin; and the 2007 Good Citizen Award from the John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club.

From 1996 through 2002, Attorney Stoddard played a leading role in litigation relating the successful effort to stop the proposed Crandon Mine project, representing both the Town of Nashville and the Sokaogan Chippewa Community in litigation and lobbying efforts to impose more restrictive regulations on the proposed Crandon Mine and other proposed metallic sulfide mines in Wisconsin. Published cases which resulted from these efforts include: State of Wisconsin v. EPA and Sokaogan Chippewa Community, 266 F.3d 741 (7th Cir. 2001); and Nicolet Minerals Company v. Town of Nashville, 2002 WI App 50, 250 Wis. 2d 831, 641 N.W.2d 497 (2002).

From 2000 through 2002, Attorney Stoddard was the lead lawyer in successful litigation against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over its decision to approve a high capacity well permit that would have allowed Nestle (f/k/a Perrier) to develop a spring water bottling plant that would have destroyed a trout stream near Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The case was Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc., et al. v. Department of Natural Resources, Columbia County Circuit Court, Case No. 00-CV-304.

From 1999 through 2001, Attorney Stoddard represented Wisconsin’s major conservation and environmental organizations in successful litigation which stopped Ashley Furniture Industries from filling in and destroying valuable wetlands for a proposed expansion of its manufacturing facilities in Arcadia, Wisconsin. The case was Sierra Club, et al. v. Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., et al., Trempealeau County Circuit Court, Case No. 99-CV-178.

Attorney Stoddard has successfully represented numerous individuals, citizen groups, and local governments throughout Wisconsin in efforts to stop or regulate high voltage transmission lines, coal-fired power plants, animal feedlots, factory farms, big-box retail developments, blasting quarries, gravel pits, sand mining and processing operations, large scale industrial wind energy projects, all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) trails on public land, and other environmentally harmful developments.

Attorney Stoddard has successfully represented clients in a number of federal cases that have resulted in published appellate court decisions, including:

• Jones ‘El, et al. v. Berge, et al, 374 F.3d 541 (7th Cir. 2004). Mr. Stoddard and his co-counsel represented the prevailing plaintiffs in this civil rights class action case which challenged the State of Wisconsin’s former “Supermax” prison for unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment of prison inmates in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
  
  
• Lemon, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 139, AFL-CIO, 216 F.3d 577 (7th Cir. 2000). Mr. Stoddard and his co-counsel represented the plaintiffs in this class-action employment discrimination case.
  
  
• State of Wisconsin v. EPA and Sokaogan Chippewa Community, 266 F.3d 741 (7th Cir. 2001). Mr. Stoddard and his co-counsel represented the prevailing Intervening Defendant-Appellee, Sokaogan Chippewa Community, in this environmental law case under the Federal Clean Water Act. In this case, the Sokaogan’s Treatment as a State (TAS), for purposes of setting water quality standards to prevent damage to Tribal waters from the proposed Crandon Mine and other potential sources of pollution was unsuccessfully challenged by the state of Wisconsin.

Attorney Stoddard has been the lead attorney in the case of Martha (“Molly”) Otis Scheer v. City of Hayward, et al., Case No. 10-CV-447, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. In this case, the plaintiff successfully challenged the City of Hayward, Wisconsin’s outdoor music ordinance under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Liability issues in the case were decided in the plaintiff’s favor based on summary judgment motions and briefs filed by Attorney Stoddard. A jury trial on damages was held in January 2012, and the jury awarded a total $401,400 to the plaintiff in combined compensatory and punitive damages. Judgment was then entered against the City of Hayward.

Attorney Stoddard has also represented clients in numerous state cases that have resulted in published appellate court decisions, including but not limited to: Magnolia Township Citizens Against Factory Farming, et al. v. Town of Magnolia, 2005 WI App 119, 701 N.W.2d 60 (2005); Step Now Citizens Group, et al. v. Town of Utica Planning & Zoning Committee, et al., 2003 WI App 109, 264 Wis. 2d 662, 663 N.W.2d 833 (2003); Nicolet Minerals Company v. Town of Nashville, 2002 WI App 50, 250 Wis. 2d 831, 641 N.W.2d 497 (2002); and Zink v. Khwaja, 2000 WI App 58, 233 Wis. 2d 691, 608 N.W2d 394 (2000).

Attorney Stoddard represented the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in a successful effort to stop a proposed open-pit iron mine from being developed in the Penokee Hills, at the headwaters of the Bad River, in northern Wisconsin. In March 2012, legislation which had been proposed by Gogebic Taconite, LLC (GTAC) to allow the proposed mine was defeated on 16-17 vote of the Wisconsin State Senate. The proposed legislation (2011 Assembly Bill 426) was written and introduced in 2011 at the behest of GTAC, and it was passed on a partisan vote by the Wisconsin Assembly in late January 2012, before being defeated by the State Senate. Shortly after the Senate vote, GTAC abandoned its plans for the mine withdrew its mineral exploration permits from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Attorney Stoddard was instrumental in framing and implementing the Tribe’s strategy to oppose AB 426 and stop GTAC’s proposed open-pit iron mine. He is continuing to represent the Tribe on mining issues because the Tribe is concerned that a new mining proposal could still be put forth by GTAC or a successor company.

Attorney Stoddard has also represented numerous individuals, citizen groups, and town governments, including the Town of Cooks Valley, in Chippewa County, in efforts to regulate frac sand and other nonmetallic mining activities. Attorney Stoddard drafted the Town of Cooks Valley Nonmetallic Mining Ordinance, which regulates frac sand and other nonmetallic mining. This ordinance was upheld as a valid licensing ordinance by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on February 8, 2012, in the case of Zwiefelhofer v. Town of Cooks Valley, 2012 WI 7.

316 N. BARSTOW STREET, SUITE B, P.O. BOX 227, EAU CLAIRE, WI 54702
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