The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled 4-3 that Gov. Tony Evers' [D] extension of the state's stay-at-home order is unconstitutional. The court deemed it "unlawful" and "unenforceable" after the state's Republican-controlled legislature filed a lawsuit in April questioning its legality.

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法院还表示，当该州的卫生服务部将命令延长至5月26日的最初到期日期，而埃弗斯政府的政府规定了其权力。

共和党立法领导人罗宾·沃斯（Robin Vos）[州议会议长]和斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（Scott Fitzgerald）[参议院多数党领袖]在诉讼中辩称，该命令将使威斯康星州的居民丧命并伤害许多公司，并断言，如果将其留在原地，“我们的州将进入混乱。”

沃斯和菲茨杰拉德在一份声明中说：“当我们在4月会见了埃弗斯州时，我们要求他开始就重新开放的计划与我们进行谈判。”“他礼貌地拒绝了，并说我们应该等待法院的裁决。既然该决定已经做出，我们相信威斯康星州公民在进入新阶段时要应对病毒作斗争的任务。”

Many businesses, such as bars and restaurants, immediately reopened following the ruling, but some municipalities and counties have instituted their own stay-at-home orders, including Milwaukee County and the 18 municipalities that surround it.

“到目前为止，威斯康星州在我们与Covid-19的斗争中处于一个很好的位置。我们已经达到了几乎所有的登陆标准。我们在全州开设了14,000个小型企业，使90,000人重新上班，那就是由于在我们州的威斯康星州的出色工作中，他们团结在一起，呆在家里，保持安全。”埃弗斯在一份声明中说。

Some Work Halted By Economic Uncertainty

Construction projects have largely continued throughout the state because construction was already exempted from the statewide order as essential infrastructure.

But what Wisconsin contractors have seen is cancellation and postponement of projects due to the uncertain economic environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin, which surveyed 54 member-contractors in the state in late March and April. The health care and retail sectors saw the most cancellations, according to the survey.

"The big number that came out of that survey was that 89% of our contractors have experienced the postponement or cancellation of a project," said Bob Barker, executive vice president of the AGC of Wisconsin. "It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out [after the ruling]; there are a lot of cautious people still in the industry and just how all of this affects our industry."

Barker said that what Republicans in the state legislature were advocating was a more regional approach, one that treats sparsely populated areas with fewer cases of the novel coronavirus, mainly in northern Wisconsin, differently than the major population centers in the southern part of the state, including Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Kenosha.

根据该裁决，埃弗斯可以与立法领导人联系并谈判延长现有命令，或者州立法机关可以通过一项法律，授权通过政府的意见进行新命令。威斯康星州的AGC表示，受调查的承包商中有44％的人报告了野外工作人员的裁员，而22％的人引用了由于大流行而引用的休假或裁员行政或项目管理人员。

财政部薪水保护计划的不确定性也是威斯康星州承包商的一个因素。

巴克说：“目前，我们的成员只有很多不确定性，他们需要对[PPP]进行一些指导。”“关于承包商的运作方式以及联邦键入法规要求的信用额度如何。该计划肯定使我们的成员受益，我们在这里没有看到巨大的影响。最大的问题是如何将如何影响成员在秋天。”

Barker advised both legislative leaders and the Evers administration to consult with design and construction professionals on how to deal with continuing work and how to reopen other industries for safe operation when a plan is agreed to.

他说：“设计和建筑行业在这段时间可能是一个很好的帮助。”“我们为我们的成员和手工艺品如何做出反应并能够通过它而感到自豪，我认为随着测试的扩展，我们将开始看到更多的积极消息。我们的成员将继续勤奋练习无论如何。”