A Wisconsin judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the law that would curtail collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin public workers. The lawsuit is being brought by a county District Attorney, who says that the legislative committee violated open meeting laws by passing the bill. The rules call for 24 hours notice of meetings or 2 hours in an emergency. The District Attorney says that this bill did not constitute an emergency, and even if it did, the meeting was held with less than two hours notice. The Secretary of State says that he will publish the law on March 25 and it will go into effect the next day unless he is ordered to do otherwise.
See "Judge issues TRO barring implementation of public union law", Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 17, 2011