Governor Walker fires law firm defending Wisconsin's domestic partnership law

Dan82 · Mar 25, 2011

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Gov. Scott Walker has fired the lawyers defending the state in a challenge to Wisconsin's domestic partnership law. But the governor's spokesman said his office "is still working to appoint a new counsel to the case."

Madison attorney Lester Pines informed Dane County Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser in a March 22 letter that his firm, Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, had been "terminated" by Walker as counsel for the state in the lawsuit filed in 2009 by Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Action, a conservative advocacy group.

Pines was hired by former Gov. Jim Doyle in August 2009 after state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen refused to defend the state in the lawsuit...

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Governor Walker fires law firm defending Wisconsin's domestic partnership law

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