Lawmakers try to expedite Foxconn ruling to state high court

[riversedge]

Source: AP






September 6, 2017
6:01 PM EDT


MADISON, Wis. — Legal experts say an unprecedented change in state law that would send legal challenges involving Foxconn Technology Group’s plant straight to the conservative justices who control the state Supreme Court would hand the company an advantage nobody else enjoys.

The Legislature’s budget-writing committee passed language Tuesday that would allow parties in lawsuits involving the plant to appeal rulings directly to the Supreme Court rather than work through the lower appellate court process.
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Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone ran for the state Supreme Court in 2013. He says the language favours one litigant over everyone else and signals that Republican legislators believe the conservative court will “bend over backward for Foxconn.”....................................


Read more: http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/lawmakers-try-to-expedite-foxconn-ruling-to-state-high-court

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How in the world can this even be legal (morally wrong)!!

[Ligyron]

1. GOPers are all about the money.

We seriously need a Revolution.

[kimbutgar]

2. Something seriously smells in this deal

How they are trying your rush it, put the state in debt and not a state Supreme Court overseeing contract.

Feels like the people of Wisconsin are going to get royalty screwed when it blows up in their faces.

[riversedge]

3. Many good people and organizations are trying to inform the public but Walker and his minons are

just rolling us over AGAIN!

[not fooled]

4. Welcome to

Wiskochistan.