{"id":588,"date":"2020-05-14T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T22:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=588"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:51:59","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-declares-safer-at-home-order-invalid-and-unenforceable-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/14\/wisconsin-supreme-court-declares-safer-at-home-order-invalid-and-unenforceable-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Declares Safer at Home Order Invalid and Unenforceable \u2013 Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court\u00a0<a title=\"Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, et al.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=260868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overturned<\/a>\u00a0the state\u2019s stay-at-home order on May 13, concluding that Secretary of Health Services Andrea Palm overstepped her statutory authority when she issued the\u00a0<a title=\"Wisconsin Safer at Home Order\" href=\"https:\/\/evers.wi.gov\/Documents\/COVID19\/EMO28-SaferAtHome.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safer at Home Order<\/a>\u00a0on April 16, 2020. The lawsuit, filed by the Wisconsin Legislature, challenged the validity of the Safer at Home Order on technical grounds, arguing that, because Secretary Palm did not comply with the statutory rulemaking procedures, it was unlawful. The Court agreed and struck down the order, which, among other things, prohibited nonessential travel and shuttered nonessential businesses through May 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/wisconsin_supreme_court_declares_safer_home_order_invalid_unenforceable_now_what_0520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court\u00a0overturned\u00a0the state\u2019s stay-at-home order on May 13, concluding that Secretary of Health Services Andrea Palm overstepped her statutory authority when she issued the\u00a0Safer at Home Order\u00a0on April 16, 2020. The lawsuit, filed by the Wisconsin Legislature, challenged the validity of the Safer at Home Order on technical grounds, arguing that, because Secretary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/14\/wisconsin-supreme-court-declares-safer-at-home-order-invalid-and-unenforceable-now-what\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wisconsin Supreme Court Declares Safer at Home Order Invalid and Unenforceable \u2013 Now What?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[600,152,781],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-litigation","tag-stay-at-home-order","tag-wisconsin"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}