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Commitments and Contingencies | 9 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments and Contingencies | COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Legal Proceedings The Company is party to various legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. These actions include commercial, intellectual property, employment, regulatory and consumer fraud claims. Some of these actions involve complex factual and legal issues and are subject to uncertainties. At this time, the Company is not able to either predict the outcome of these legal proceedings or reasonably estimate a potential range of loss with respect to the proceedings. The Company does not believe that the outcome of any current legal proceeding would have a material adverse effect on results of operations, cash flows or financial position taken as a whole. Beginning in 2005, the Company initiated the first of several claims in Iowa County Circuit Court against the City of Dodgeville to recover overpaid taxes resulting from the city’s excessive assessment of the Company’s headquarters campus. As of December 9, 2014, the courts reviewing these claims have ordered the city to return, and the city has refunded, over $3.9 million in excessive taxes and interest to the Company. The Company received approximately $1.6 million for the case involving the 2005 and 2006 tax years that was recognized in 2009. The Company also received a partial recovery of approximately $1.6 million for the consolidated cases, involving the 2007, 2009 and 2010 tax years, recognized in 2013 within Selling and administrative costs in the Condensed Consolidated and Combined Statement of Operations and for which the Company appealed seeking the remainder of our claim of $1.2 million and additional interest. Additionally, in September 2013, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals awarded the Company $0.7 million in tax reimbursement and an as-yet uncalculated amount of interest on the Company’s claim relating to the 2008 tax year, which the City of Dodgeville paid in June 2014. Of the reimbursement received, $0.6 million was recognized as a decrease to Selling and administrative expense and $0.1 million of interest was recognized as an increase to Other income in the Condensed Consolidated and Combined Statements Comprehensive Operations for the 39 weeks ended October 31, 2014. In May 2014, the Court of Appeals granted, in part, the Company's appeal of the 2007, 2009 and 2010 tax assessment cases, concluding that the Company was entitled to a further reduction in its 2007 and 2009 assessments. The Company estimates that this ruling will entitle the Company to an additional refund of approximately $0.6 million, plus an as-yet uncalculated amount of interest. The Company filed an appeal with the Wisconsin Supreme Court seeking a reduction in its 2010 tax assessment that is the same as the reduction in the 2007 and 2009 assessments awarded by the Court of Appeals in its May 2014 decision. The Wisconsin Supreme Court denied the Company's appeal. Excluding the claim relating to the 2005 and 2006 tax years for which all appeals have been exhausted, the Company believes that its outstanding claims pending in circuit court covering the still-disputed tax years from 2007 through 2013 may yield a potential aggregate recovery from the City of Dodgeville of $3.2 million or more. In addition, the Company has submitted an administrative claim for the 2014 tax year, which has not yet been filed in the circuit court, which the Company believes may yield a potential aggregate recovery from the City of Dodgeville of $0.7 million or more. None of these amounts for outstanding claims have been recorded in the Condensed Consolidated and Combined Financial Statements.

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