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Wisconsin governor's office to comply with lawsuit records request
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32289
Subject(s) - lawsuit , state (computer science) , legislature , law , schedule , political science , legislative assembly , governor , engineering , management , politics , computer science , economics , algorithm , aerospace engineering
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers will comply with a top state legislator's request for records about farmer mental health programs that is the subject of a lawsuit, despite maintaining that the request is overly broad and burdensome, the Wisconsin State Journal reported March 18. In a motion filed earlier this month, lawyers from the state attorney general's office, who represent Evers and his office in the lawsuit, asked Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington to put the lawsuit on hold because Evers has agreed to comply in full with the request for the records. By this week, they wrote, Evers' office would give lawyers for state Rep. John Nygren, (R‐Marinette), an estimated schedule for producing the documents. Nygren's lawyers wrote that they don't oppose the motion to put the case on hold. Nygren, who is co‐chair of the legislature's influential budget committee, sued Evers in November in Dane County Circuit Court, challenging Evers' denial of a request Nygren made in August for records related to a farmer mental health program run by the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.