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Opelika: At East Alabama Medical Center, located about 60 miles northeast of Montgomery, nurses and doctors who have spent months caring for the ill, are doing what they can to get through the holiday season, which many fear will only spread the disease and add to the U.S. death toll that has surpassed 300,000. That means staff members can hang decorations on patients’ doors in the ICU but cannot attend after-work Christmas parties. A cheerful Santa doll stands atop the desk at a nursing station, but big gatherings with relatives are out. A nurse for five years, Nurse Carla Fallin said Christmas just doesn’t feel right this year. She and her husband did not take their two young sons to local Christmas events that drew hundreds of people, many without masks. The decorations in the ICU help lighten the mental load a lit
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As he is skewered by the conservative politicians and pundits who helped elect him, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn insists he remains true to his campaign promise: to read the law as plainly written and interpret it as the writers intended.
Those legal principles, known as âtextualismâ and âoriginalism,â are hallmarks of the conservative judicial approach â one that Hagedorn ostensibly shares with three others on the stateâs highest court: Chief Justice Pat Roggensack, Justice Annette Ziegler and Justice Rebecca Bradley, who were also elected with the help of Republicans.
âAs best I can Iâm trying to follow the law,â said Hagedorn, who legal observers say has become the courtâs most powerful swing vote. He says his restrained approach aligns with the judicial philosophy he has always had.
State Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 restrictions challenge
December 22, 2020 8:45 PM Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has turned away a challenge of Dane County’s ban of indoor gatherings in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
In a 4-3 vote Tuesday, the high court rejected the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s request that it bypass lower courts and take up its case. The county has since relaxed restrictions on all private gatherings indoors, including sports activities and those in private homes.
In his majority opinion, Justice Brian Hagedorn emphasized the Supreme Court isn’t designed to take up cases in the first instance, a job meant for circuit courts.
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