Judge Rejects Wisconsin Law Curtailing Union Powers, but Battle Is Not Over

A Wisconsin circuit-court judge has struck down a law stripping the state public-university system’s academic employees of their collective-bargaining rights after concluding that Republican lawmakers violated open-meetings laws in passing the measure with too little public notice, the Associated Press reports. The judge’s ruling is unlikely to resolve the matter, however, as the legal battle is likely to go to the state’s Supreme Court and lawmakers could opt to vote on the measure again.