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sl8

(13,961 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 08:25 AM Oct 2020

Wisconsin business groups sue to keep COVID lists secret

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-lawsuits-wisconsin-madison-2e0dc701bfc8128ac91b00e91a7d57e7

Wisconsin business groups sue to keep COVID lists secret

TODD RICHMOND
October 1, 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three business groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from releasing the names of more than 1,000 businesses with employees who have tested positive for COVID-19, saying the release would blacklist those operations as the disease surges across the state.

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce along with the Muskego and New Berlin chambers of commerce filed the lawsuit in Waukesha County, a Republican stronghold. They allege that Evers is preparing to release on Friday a list of more than 1,000 businesses that have had two or more employees test positive in response to media requests.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge Lloyd Carter issued an injunction blocking any release for five days pending a hearing.

WMC argues that the data is extrapolated from employee medical records that are private under state law. Releasing the information would violate the employees’ privacy and ruin the businesses’ reputations, the groups contend.

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Wisconsin business groups sue to keep COVID lists secret (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2020 OP
They can't get it through their heads that their business is not going to get bette Walleye Oct 2020 #1
Simple solution-- CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #2

Walleye

(31,135 posts)
1. They can't get it through their heads that their business is not going to get bette
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 08:28 AM
Oct 2020

While so many people are still sick and dying. Businessman think they can impose their will on anything

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
2. Simple solution--
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:57 AM
Oct 2020

Until the lists are published, boycott everything coming out of Wisconsin.

Look at our pathetic Covid numbers since the last time Governor Evers was sued by these jackals.

They want to kill us all in the name of Vladimir.

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