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17 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm by Jamison Chung
In the run-up to Wisconsin’s spring election, the governor, state legislature, and state and federal courts engaged in a back-and-forth confrontation about how and when voters would cast ballots. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 1:06 pm by Michael Morley
Instead of, or in addition to, election-specific statutes, several states more broadly allow the governor to suspend state laws or statutory deadlines during declared states of emergency when necessary to protect human life. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 6:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
For example, in Wisconsin, the governor has signed legislation that allows local taxation districts to waive interest and penalties on late property tax payments if the payments are for taxes due after April 1 and are paid by October 1. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Companies and trade groups seeking to shape the rules are lobbying governors, most of whom have issued executive orders detailing which businesses can remain open and which must close. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 11:00 pm
Since Governor Evers first declared a public health emergency in the state on March 12, 2020, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (“DWD”) has experienced an unprecedented spike in the number of claims for unemployment insurance benefits. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 11:00 pm
On April 15, 2020, after a series of extraordinary sessions, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed and the governor signed 2019 Wisconsin Act 185 as Wisconsin’s COVID-19 response legislation to provide continued economic relief to individuals and businesses at the state level. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 4:47 pm by tvasil
Wisconsin:  On April 15th, Wisconsin Governor Evers signed into law 2019 Wisconsin Act 185, related to the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 4:12 pm by Jackie McDermott and Lana Ulrich
Louisiana Board of Health (1886), a case that said quarantine laws belong to a class which typically only the states may establish until Congress acts in the matter to preempt state action by covering the same ground or forbidding state laws. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 6:59 am by Nicholas Mosvick
" Wisconsin Senator Matthew Hale Carpenter, a regular and famous attorney in the Supreme Court Bar who was a family friend, argued on behalf of Bradwell. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 6:43 am by Kevin Kaufman
On April 11, Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) requested $500 billion in federal aid to cover revenue shortfalls. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Washington: “Bankruptcy Judge Orders Tim Eyman to Pay $270,000 in State Court Contempt Fines by April 19” by Daniel Beekman for Seattle Times Elections New York: “New York’s Smaller Political Parties Must Quickly Meet New Ballot Thresholds” by Samar Khurshid for Gotham Gazette Wisconsin: “Upset Victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Gives Democrats a Lift” by Reid Epsein (New York Times) for MSN Ethics National:… [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 4:29 pm by Amy Howe
Last week a divided court blocked a lower-court order that had extended the deadline for absentee ballots to be submitted in Wisconsin’s election, while on Saturday Planned Parenthood asked the justices to allow medication abortions to go forward while it challenges a near-total ban on abortions in Texas, imposed under an executive order by that state’s governor intended to conserve hospital space and personal protective equipment during the crisis. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 9:17 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
Last Monday the Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked Governor Tony Evers’ emergency executive order to postpone the state’s primary election, and the US Supreme Court denied an extension of absentee ballot submission deadlines. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
On Tuesday, April 7, Wisconsin held a primary election despite the fact that state residents were under an order of the governor to stay home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:16 pm by John Floyd
When the Wisconsin Secretary of State set those dates, there was no COVID 19 pandemic crisis. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 11:49 am by Kevin Kaufman
Several states, including Utah and Wisconsin, are beginning to formulate plans to convene special sessions this spring. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 9:10 am by Cassandra Maas
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin filed suit in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday, seeking the release of the elderly and vulnerable from state prisons to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 7:16 am by Thomas Schober
This article is the marvelous work of our current law clerk Kieran O’Day, who will be finishing his stint with us shortly and heading on to clerk with the Supreme Court for the State of Wisconsin! [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 4:06 am by Steve Lubet
New Mexico has a Democratic legislature and governor, and its primary is not until early June. [read post]