Wisconsin Supreme Court: Collective Bargaining Law can take effect.

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Of course it can.  Judges can't interfere in the Legislative Branch; the idiot in question had no right to overturn the law on possible administrative grounds.

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Supreme Court clears way for collective bargaining law to take effect

ED TRELEVEN | etreleven@madison.com | 608-252-6134 madison.com |

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a Dane County judge's rulings that voided a state law limiting collective bargaining rights of public workers, finding that the judge overstepped her authority in making her decision.

In a nine-page decision with about 60 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions, the court said that Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi stepped into the legislative process when she ruled that the collective bargaining law was void.

"This court has granted the petition for an original action because one of the courts that we are charged with supervising has usurped the legislative power which the Wisconsin constitution grants exclusively to the legislature," the court wrote.

"We've been saying since day one that Republicans passed the budget repair bill correctly, so frankly this isn't much of a surprise," state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said. "We followed the law when the bill was passed, simple as that."

The court, however, declined to step into the dispute over whether the March 9 conference committee violated the state's open meetings law.

"In the posting of notice that was done, the Legislature relied on its interpretation of its own rules of proceeding," the court wrote. "The court declines to review the validity of the procedure used to give notice of the joint committee on conference."