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By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press


      MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has denied an emergency request to
block a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights
from the vast majority of Wisconsin's public workers.


      Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the legislation Friday
morning, but it doesn't take effect until the day after an official
secretary of state notice is published in the Madison newspaper.


      Democratic Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk has filed a
lawsuit seeking to stop the publication. She argues the state
Senate unconstitutionally passed the bill Wednesday.


      Dane County Circuit Judge Amy Smith declined to issue an
emergency order blocking the law, saying Falk's attorneys didn't
prove how publishing it would inflict irreparable harm on anyone.
The judge scheduled a full hearing in the case for Wednesday.
      

A judge has denied an emergency request to
block a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights
from the vast majority of Wisconsin's public workers.

Judge denies request to block Wis. anti-union law

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