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DANE COUNTY | APPEALS PENDING

Ruling overturning Act 10 temporarily paused while appeal proceeds

MITCHELL SCHMIDT
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 19, 2024 Updated Jan 23, 2025

Two days after a school shooting on Madison’s Far East side killed two people and injured six others, Chief Shon Barnes is grappling with the question of the shooter’s motive.

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A Dane County judge on Wednesday temporarily paused his order striking down most of Act 10, the landmark 2011 law that gutted public sector collective bargaining in Wisconsin.

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