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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Jan. 29, 2016
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Legal Proceedings
The Company is party to various claims, legal proceedings and investigations arising in the ordinary course of business. 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. While it is not feasible to predict the outcome of such pending claims, proceedings and investigations with certainty, management is of the opinion that their ultimate resolution should not 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 (the "City") to recover overpaid taxes resulting from the city’s excessive property tax assessment of the Company’s headquarters campus. As of March 31, 2016, the City has refunded, as the result of various court decisions, over $4.0 million in excessive taxes and interest to the Company in the following amounts: (1) approximately $1.6 million arising from the 2005 and 2006 tax years that was recognized in Fiscal 2009; (2) approximately $1.6 million arising from the 2007, 2009 and 2010 tax years, recognized in Fiscal 2013; (3) approximately $0.9 million arising from the 2008 tax year, recognized in Fiscal 2014. The claims arising from the 2005 and 2006 tax years are closed. The Company claims arising from tax years 2007 and 2009 through 2015 remain unresolved and are still pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on several unresolved issues. The Company believes that the potential additional aggregate recovery from the City of Dodgeville arising from the 2007 to 2015 tax years will range from $2.8 million to $4.6 million, none of which has been recorded in the Consolidated and Combined Financial Statements.