Mar. 31st, 2011

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New flash: somebody in the Burgher Wa*ker administration wised up to the fact that when a judge imposes a temporary restraining order, they mean it - but only after the third such one is issued:

In the latest legal volley in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker's new law curtailing public employee unions, Dane County (Madison) Judge Maryann Sumi issued on Thursday morning an amended restraining order, declaring that the law has not been validly published in order to take effect -- following efforts by the state Republican leadership to sidestep her earlier orders against publication by going through different agencies.

This followed a declaration on Wednesday by Secretary of Administration Mike Huebsch, stating that the law was still in effect, despite two different orders by Sumi to block it, and maintaining that the law was validly published and that Sumi's order did not apply to his department.

A link to the current TRO can be found here, but I'm sure that given the Wa*ker administration's bull on mescaline in a china shop approach to jurisprudence he'll figure out a way to eventually ignore this one as well.

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