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Judge Halts Implementation Of Collective Bargaining Law
WISN.com ^ | March 29, 2011 | Nick Bohr

Posted on 03/29/2011 3:52:08 PM PDT by Sopater

MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there should be no further implementation of a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers.

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said Tuesday that her earlier restraining order saying the law shouldn't be enacted had either been ignored or misinterpreted.

Sumi stopped short of saying the law was not already in effect. She said she will take more testimony on that issue.

The Legislative Reference Bureau posted the law on a legislative website Friday, leading Gov. Scott Walker's administration to declare the law was in effect.

Sumi revised her original March temporary restraining order blocking the secretary of state from publishing the law, which is typically the last step before it becomes effective.

(Excerpt) Read more at wisn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2thwartelection; 4mobrule; budgetbill; bulletsnotballots; unions; victory4mobrule; walker; wisconsinshowdown
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It seems as though is quickly turning to a power struggle to see who has the utlimate authority to determine if a law is law. Executive and legislative branches say "yes" and one lone county circuit judge says "no"... then the judge complains that she has "either been ignored or misinterpreted". ;-)

I'm sorry, did you say something?

1 posted on 03/29/2011 3:52:13 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

ping


2 posted on 03/29/2011 3:53:10 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Sopater

Why hasn’t she been taken to task over the FACT that she should recuse herself, since she has an obvious bias in this case?


3 posted on 03/29/2011 3:56:30 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: Sopater

It would be silly not to expect this to wind up in the lap of the Wis Supremes, whose very leaning is at stake with the upcoming election. The Rats are Acorning with all their might for this one. I hope the broken glass Republicans win the day.


4 posted on 03/29/2011 3:57:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Sopater
Well, the judge ruled that the Sec of State couldn't publish the law. As I understand it, in WI, there is a non-partisan part of the state legislature that publishes laws, and not the Sec. of State. If that is the case, this po-dunk county judge should learn to write better rulings, so they would at least be based in reality. Of course, I may be off-base in this, but there were threads on FR that went along these lines, and with documentation of the law-publishing process in WI.
5 posted on 03/29/2011 3:57:54 PM PDT by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: Howie66

Given that she’s pooh-poohed the notion in public already, this becomes an appellate issue.


6 posted on 03/29/2011 3:58:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Carling

Ultimately the court doesn’t have more input than the litigants before it. If the Rat side failed to ask the court to keep the law from getting published in this alternative way, then that’s their problem.


7 posted on 03/29/2011 4:00:34 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Sopater
"Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said Tuesday that her earlier restraining order saying the law shouldn't be enacted had either been ignored or misinterpreted."

Ignored.

"Sumi stopped short of saying the law was not already in effect. She said she will take more testimony on that issue."

And why on earth would she stop short there? Perhaps because she is DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR ANY REASON to back up her ideological unlawful ruling?

8 posted on 03/29/2011 4:00:58 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (“Too often, Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep"...RUN SARAH RUN!!)
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To: Sopater

The people and the government are now two distinct and competing entities. Eventually, one will prevail completely over the other.


9 posted on 03/29/2011 4:02:10 PM PDT by Spok
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That idiot has de facto elevated herself to the power of the entire a Wisc Judiciary branch. Fool.

I see the legislature stripping her of her authority to rule in such things.

Very simple. Same thing for the Wisc Supremes.

The legislature can enforce its will by killing all their budgets and putting their asses out on the street.

Start with funding for her County judgeship first.

Money always talks.

FReegards!


10 posted on 03/29/2011 4:07:07 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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Walker should absolutely follow this judge's edict.

In the sole county she has jurisdiction over.

11 posted on 03/29/2011 4:09:11 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Sopater

Ignore her just the way Obama ignores federal judges and the Constitution.


12 posted on 03/29/2011 4:11:46 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Sopater

Implement the law


13 posted on 03/29/2011 4:16:47 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: Sopater

Judge Sumi will get smacked down by WI Supremes for COI issues.


14 posted on 03/29/2011 4:16:59 PM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Spok

The people and the government are now two distinct and competing entities. Eventually, one will prevail completely over the other.


It’s a steel cage match. Unchecked institutional power versus individual freedoms. We need to put government down for the count.


15 posted on 03/29/2011 4:17:24 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Sopater
Only Democrats can ignore court decisions.
16 posted on 03/29/2011 4:18:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("...crush the bourgeoisie... between the millstones of taxation and inflation." --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Lazamataz

Walker should absolutely follow this judge’s edict.
In the sole county she has jurisdiction over.
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Exactly. Implement the law in all counties but hers. Start massive layoffs in hers.


17 posted on 03/29/2011 4:18:19 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Sopater

“And a child shall lead them...”

Obama was the first to set the standard for ignoring judges that step outside of their version of the constitution.

So Sumi should first make noise about Obama ignoring a judge’s orders before she complains about Walker.


18 posted on 03/29/2011 4:18:19 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: DarthVader
Judge Sumi will get smacked down by WI Supremes for COI issues.

Not if we lose the Wisconsin Supreme Court election at the beginning of April. That would shift the balance to the left and the court will likely side with every Dem effort to derail this legislation.

19 posted on 03/29/2011 4:25:17 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: meyer

FOX News is already reporting that the Walker Administration is ignoring the Sumi ruling and, for good measure, giving her the middle finger. Walker’s justice dept is saying that Sumi’s ridiculous order only applies to the secretary of state and that the order is moot, because the law has already been published.

Thank God Scott Walker has stones.


20 posted on 03/29/2011 4:26:53 PM PDT by mwl8787
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