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14 Nov 2020, 6:00 pm by Howard Bashman
“As Covid cases soar, GOP state lawmakers keep fighting to limit governors’ power to respond; Experts say the limits conservative state lawmakers want on governors’ emergency powers would hamper the anti-Covid fight; In Wisconsin, they already have”: Adiel Kaplan of NBC News has this report. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 1:30 pm by Richard Reibstein Esq.
A.B. 5 created a test for independent contractor status that many in that state regard as unattainable to meet, essentially eliminating an overwhelming number of independent contractor positions in that state. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 12:40 pm by John Ross
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Drones over Baltimore and privileges or immunities in Washington state. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 11:11 pm
And it has not gone unnoticed that of the disputed States (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada), all but Georgia and Arizona have Democratic governors, as well as Democratic Secretaries of State, and Democratic election officials, while they each (except for Nevada) have legislatures in which both houses have Republican majorities. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:59 am by Benjamin Wittes
And of the Republican governor of Georgia echoing those attacks? [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat and Daniel B. Edelman
Democratic governors of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada will need to certify the Democrats’ lists even if the Republican governors of Georgia and Arizona bow to their state legislatures and certify Republican lists.If the two Houses disagree on which electoral votes to count, as might happen with Republicans in control of the new Senate at least on January 6, the ECA makes plain that the votes of the electors certified by the respective… [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 11:09 am by Richard Reibstein Esq.
An Illinois federal district court has granted conditional collective certification of an independent contractor misclassification claim by cable technicians, who claim that Elite Engineering, Inc. violated the wage and hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the law of Missouri, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. [read post]
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals on Friday blocked Governor Tony Evers’ third emergency order to limit public gatherings and business occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
8 Nov 2020, 11:07 pm
And it has not gone unnoticed that of the disputed States (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada), all but Georgia have Democratic governors, as well as Democratic Secretaries of State, and Democratic election officials, while they each (except for Nevada) have legislatures in which both houses have Republican majorities. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 5:07 am by Scott Bomboy
Or there is a dispute over the election winner between the state lawmakers and a governor, for example? [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Trump Campaign Mounts Challenges in Four States as Narrow Margins Raise Stakes for Battles Over Which Ballots Will Count MSN – Elise Viebeck, Robert Barnes, Tom Hamburger, and Rosalind Helderman (Washington Post) | Published: 11/4/2020 President Trump’s reelection campaign said it would launch a legal blitz to try to halt vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan, would seek a recount in Wisconsin, and challenged the handling of ballots in Georgia, threatening… [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:30 am
 He said Democrats had achieved some victories, like preventing Republicans from gaining a supermajority in the Wisconsin Assembly, which will stop the Legislature from overriding any veto of electoral maps by the Democratic governor. [read post]
In part due to an executive order issued by Florida’s governor in response to the coronavirus pandemic, election officials are allowed to begin processing mail ballots as soon as the ballots are received after Sept. 24. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Exactly where that is allowed varies widely, echoing the way the country’s election processes vary from state to state. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Four key swing states—Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—have Democratic governors but Republican majorities in both houses of their (gerrymandered) state legislatures. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat and Daniel B. Edelman
The October 26 ruling that Wisconsin can only count mail ballots received by Election Day is but one example of that damage. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:54 am by Aviel Menter
In some state courts, these arguments have succeeded, depending on the court’s interpretation of state law. [read post]
25 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat and Daniel B. Edelman
”Here is where Democratic governors will have to stand tall in order to defend democracy.No matter what their legislatures do, the governors of battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina are free to communicate to Congress the votes cast by Democratic electors if they reflect the preference of the greatest number of voters in their states.If they do so, this will not be the first time that Congress has been called on to… [read post]