Dane County Judge Juan Colas struck down Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s law repealing most collective bargaining rights for local and school employees. While the law remains largely in place for state workers, the decision returns city, county, and school workers to the organized status they enjoyed before Walker signed the legislation in March 2011. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Colas ruled that the law violated workers’ constitutional rights to free speech, free association, and equal representation under the law by capping union workers’ raises but not those of their nonunion counterparts.”