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As COVID-19 accompanies us into a new season, with temperatures falling, leaves now off the trees, and sundown at 4:30 p.m., it is only natural that a certain weariness sets in. When will this be over? And, when it is, what will the new normal look like?
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Mark Goldstein, U.W. 1994, is president of Goldstein Law Group S.C., Milwaukee, a law firm serving as outside general counsel to businesses with a focus on labor and employment law, business law, and litigation.
Although nobody knows the answer to the first question, the answer to the second is beginning to come clear – and yielding provocative new questions, too. So what will the new normal look like? As devastating as this pandemic has been, there are some positive developments that likely will be with us post-COVID-19. Consider the following:
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Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the longest serving justice in Wisconsin’s judiciary, at a June 18, 2019 event in her honor at the Wisconsin State Capitol. (Photo: Andy Manis).
Dec. 21, 2020 – Shirley Abrahamson, who served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for 43 years before her retirement last year, passed away this past weekend after battling pancreatic cancer. She was 87.
“We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson,” said State Bar of Wisconsin Executive Director Larry J. Martin. She was a monumental figure in Wisconsin’s judiciary during her record 43 year career, including 19 years as chief justice.
2,000 Object to Redistricting Proposal
272 pages of comments compiled by Fair Maps Coalition oppose state Supreme Court drawing legislative districts. //end headline wrapper ?>Assembly Districts
Almost 2,000 additional comments opposing a proposal to give the Wisconsin Supreme Court power to draw state redistricting maps were made public in the days following the Nov. 30 comment deadline.
Negative comments came from representatives of Gov.
Tony Evers; a group of nine law professors; three election scholars; two former state senators; and 1,932 various Wisconsin residents – the last in a 712-page compilation of comments from the Fair Maps Coalition. All of the submissions can be found here.