Supreme Court takes over appeal in lame-duck suit
A divided state Supreme Court today decided to take over an appeal that had been filed in one of two lame-duck lawsuits originating out of Dane County even though the justices hadn’t been asked to do so. The court earlier this week granted a request to take up another extraordinary suit. In an order late Friday afternoon, the court wrote it had taken notice of the appeal pending in the 3rd District Court of Appeals that was filed in the lawsuit brought by SEIU and others. The court decided “the interests of the state would be best served by the