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Prosecutor won’t charge Wisconsin justice (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who staved off an unusually intense campaign to replace him this summer will not face criminal charges over allegations that he tried to choke a liberal colleague, a prosecutor said Thursday. Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett, a special […]
Prosecutor accepts Supreme Court choke case (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A rural prosecutor will decide whether to charge Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser with attacking a liberal colleague. Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett said Monday she has accepted a request from Dane County’s chief judge to serve as a special prosecutor in the case. […]
DA wants new prosecutor in Supreme Court probe (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison prosecutor wants a judge to pick someone else to handle allegations state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser attacked a liberal colleague. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Monday he wants to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. The high court was […]
Fees building in DA’s open records suit
Failure to immediately comply with an open records request could cost the Dane County District Attorney’s office thousands of dollars in legal fees. A Michigan education group is suing district attorney Ismael Ozanne to recoup upward of $5,000 in legal costs it incurred while pursuing an open records request tied to Wisconsin’s new collective bargaining […]
Collective bargaining bill sparks open records suit (UPDATE)
A Michigan education group is suing Dane County’s district attorney to recoup legal costs it incurred while pursuing an open records request tied to Wisconsin’s new collective bargaining law. Education Action Group Foundation Inc., Muskegon, Mich., twice requested all of Ismael Ozanne’s county emails pertaining to Gov. Scott Walker or the budget-repair bill, said Steve […]
Supreme Court upholds collective bargaining law (UPDATE)
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s polarizing collective bargaining rights law is set to take effect on June 29 after the state Supreme Court determined that a judge overstepped her authority when she voided the governor’s plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights. The ruling Tuesday evening […]
Protesters in Madison haven’t yet paid fines
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Since the protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal began in February, tens of thousands of people have demonstrated at the Capitol. Most of the protests have been civil. But, according to the Department of Administration, 41 people have been arrested a total of 59 times. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports […]
Republicans ask justices to act in union case
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for Republican lawmakers asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a judge’s order blocking the state’s polarizing union rights law, while Democrats urged the justices to uphold the ruling or make the GOP go through the usual — and slow — appeals process. […]
DOJ asks court to lift ban on union law
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to immediately vacate a Madison judge’s decision striking down Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious collective bargaining law. Judge Maryann Sumi invalidated the law on Thursday after finding Republican legislators violated Wisconsin’s open records law during[...]
Judge voids Wisconsin collective bargaining law (UPDATE)
By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers was struck down Thursday by a circuit court judge but the ruling will not be the final say in the union fight that brought tens of thousands of protesters to […]
Attorneys ask judge to toss union lawsuit
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious collective bargaining law. Democratic Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne alleges Republican lawmakers violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law during debate on the plan. Judge Maryann Sumi has blocked the law while she considers the case. She […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear union case
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday it would hear arguments in June over whether a judge had the authority to block implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal taking away collective bargaining rights from nearly all state workers. The court asked both sides of a lawsuit challenging […]
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