The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked an order to extend Gov. Tony Evers’s (D) statewide stay-at-home order amid the CCP virus crisis, ruling most of it as “unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable,” and that Andrea Palm, Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, had “exceeded her authority” in issuing the order.
The ruling (pdf) means that businesses and restaurants can effectively reopen immediately. But local governments can still order their own health restrictions. Officials in Dane County, home to the capital city of Madison, have already issued a replacement stay-at-home order with most of the original statewide order. Meanwhile, city health officials in Milwaukee County said a stay-at-home order they enacted in late March remains in effect.
