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WISCONSIN EDUC. ASS'N COUNCIL v. WALKER

Nos. 12-1854, 12-2011, 12-2058.

705 F.3d 640 (2013)

WISCONSIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Scott WALKER, Governor of Wisconsin, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees. Appeal of Kristi LaCroix, et al., Proposed Intervenors/Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 18, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Dayan (argued), Attorney, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, Aaron N. Halstead , Attorney, Hawks Quindel, S.C., Madison, WI, Marianne G. Robbins , Attorney, Previant, Goldberg, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Steven C. Kilpatrick , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Eric M. McLeod , Attorney, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Madison, WI, Joseph L. Olson (argued), Attorney, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Milton L. Chappell , Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, VA, Richard M. Esenberg , Attorney, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Milwaukee, WI, and Glenn M. Taubman , Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, VA, for Proposed Intervenors/Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Before BAUER, FLAUM, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

In 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature passed Act 10, a budget repair bill proposed by recently elected Governor Scott Walker. Act 10 significantly altered the state's public employee labor laws, creating two distinct classes of public employees — a select group of "public safety employees" with the remainder classified as "general employees." Among other things, the Act prohibited general employees from collectively bargaining on issues other...

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