HIGH COURT TO CONSIDER DAV, LEGION CASES
High Court to Consider DAV, Lemon Cases Other Actions to Delay Annual Recess of Justices The state supreme court convened this week for arguments and decisions on cases which will delay the summer...
...Another case given advanced place on the calendar involves the attempt of nine former employes of the state tax department to require Com...
...Elmer E. Barlow to reinstate them...
...Last month the court gave special attention to a request of commercial fishermen who seek to enjoin the conservation commission from enforcing its order increasing the mesh size of nets and revising other regulations in Green Bay and Lake Michigan...
...Among the latter are appeals by veterans' organizations for release of appropriations the legislature voted to help finance the national convention of Disabled American Veterans at Green Bay this year and to assist Milwaukee in obtaining the national American Legion convention next year...
...The tribunal also has agreed to expedite a ruling on the constitutionality of the new code law for service trades, enforcement of which has been beset by conflicting decisions of circuit courts in various parts of the state...
...In addition to routine action expected this week on approximately 35 appeals, the court has agreed to consider five special cases, four of which involve interpretations of measures passed by the 1939 legislature...
...High Court to Consider DAV, Lemon Cases Other Actions to Delay Annual Recess of Justices The state supreme court convened this week for arguments and decisions on cases which will delay the summer recess, usually beginning the first of this month...
...They charged their civil service rights were violated...
...and $27,050 asked by the Legion Convention Corp...
...The;-were among 57 dismissed when Barlow reorganized the department...
...until the controversy was settled...
...The court accepted original jurisdiction in a dispute instituted by William T. Evjue, editor of The Capital Times, who challenged the legality of the appropriations...
...On its regular calendar the court has before it a case involving the Bol-ens law of 1939, which allowed deduction of federal estate taxes before computing state inheritance taxes...
...Arguments are scheduled for this week...
...State Treasurer John M. Smith declined to rela.se $4,000 requested by the DAV Convention Corp...
...These and other cases may keep the court in session for another week or or 10 days...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
