WISCONSIN EDUC. ASS'N COUNCIL v. WALKER

No. 11-cv-428-wmc.

824 F.Supp.2d 856 (2012)

WISCONSIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION COUNCIL; Wisconsin Council of County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, District Council 40, AFL-CIO; Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME, District Council 24, AFL-CIO; AFT-Wisconsin, AFL-CIO; AFSCME, District Council 48, AFL-CIO; Seiu Healthcare Wisconsin, CTW, CLC; and Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs, v. Scott WALKER, Governor, State of Wisconsin; Michael Huebsch, Secretary, Department of Administration; Gregory L. Gracz, Director, Office of State Employment Relations; James R. Scott, Chair, Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission; Judith Neumann, Commissioner, Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission; and Rodney G. Pasch, Commissioner, Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

March 30, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron N. Halstead , Hawks Quindel Ehlke & Perry, S.C., Peggy A. Lautenschlager , Lawton & Cates, S.C., Kurt C. Kobelt , Wisconsin Education Association Council, Madison, WI, Barbara Zack Qmndel , Timothy E. Hawks , Hawks Quindel, S.C., Marianne Goldstein Robbins , Previant, Goldberg, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, Jason Walta , National Education Association, Jeremiah Collins , John West , Leon Dayan , Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Mark A. Sweet , Law Offices of Mark A. Sweet, LLC, Whitefish Bay, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Eric M. McLeod , Michael P. Screnocii , Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Steven Carl Kilpatrick , Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, Joseph Louis Olson , Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM M. CONLEY, District Judge.

With the passage of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, denominated the "Budget Repair Bill," the State of Wisconsin took a sweeping right turn from a half century of developments in the rights of its public employees to unionize, collectively bargain and collect union dues.1 Plaintiffs, representing seven of Wisconsin's largest public unions...

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