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This just in… Supreme Court grants stay in capital bill case

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* 2:32 pm - I’ll post the order in a minute granting a stay of the appellate ruling declaring the state’s capital bill to be unconstitutional.

* Click here to read it…

* Basically, what this means is that everything with the capital bill is now status quo ante. Drivers service fees don’t have to be immediately refunded and projects apparently can carry on, at least until the Supremes rule otherwise (or not).

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Feb 1, 11 @ 2:32 pm

Comments

Any legal eagles know if that indicates which way they’ll bounce?

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Feb 1, 11 @ 4:03 pm
It doesn’t indicate anything.

The State filed a motion for a stay, and Wirtz filed a motion saying he was fine with a stay. So the ISC granted it.

Comment by dave Tuesday, Feb 1, 11 @ 4:46 pm
dave, we had that info yesterday. The point is, it’s stayed.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Feb 1, 11 @ 4:56 pm
Rich, I think you are being a bit short with Dave.

“The point” is not that is was stayed because that’s not what wordslinger’s asked. He asked if the granting of the motion provided an indication as to a SC ruling. Dave answered that, though he could have answered it better by explaining that courts usually grant agreed (or expressed “no objection”) motions and therefore one should not draw an inference from it.

Comment by Edison Parker Tuesday, Feb 1, 11 @ 5:34 pm