Last week, Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen [official website] filed a Petition for Supervisory Writ directly to the state Supreme Court over Sumi temporarily blocking [JURIST reports] the union bargaining bill last month. The suit claimed that Sumi did not have the constitutional authority to block the publication of the bill. Last month, Sumi issued an order [JURIST report] clarifying that the temporary restraining order prohibits not only publication of the bill, but implementation of its provisions as well. Sumi's order was issued in response to debate among government officials [JURIST report] that the law went into effect after it was published on the Wisconsin Legislative Bureau's website. The judge's temporary restraining order also stemmed from a lawsuit [JURIST report] filed earlier this month by District Attorney Ismael Ozanne [official website] claiming that Republican legislators passed the bill in violation of Wisconsin's open meetings law.