Wisconsin Code § 227.60

Jurisdiction of state courts to determine validity of laws when attacked in federal court and to stay enforcement
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Whenever a suit praying for an interlocutory injunction shall have been begun in a federal district court to restrain any department, board, commission or officer from enforcing or administering any statute or administrative order of this
state, or to set aside or enjoin the suit or administrative order, the
department, board, commission or officer, or the attorney general, may bring a suit to enforce the statute or order in the circuit
court of Dane County at any time before the hearing on the application for an interlocutory injunction in the suit in the federal
court. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the circuit court of
Dane County and on the court of appeals, on appeal, to entertain
the suit with the powers granted in this section. The circuit court
shall, when the suit is brought, grant a stay of proceedings by any
state department, board, commission or officer under the statute
or order pending the determination of the suit in the courts of the
state. The circuit court of Dane County upon the bringing of the
suit therein shall at once cause a notice thereof, together with a
copy of the stay order by it granted, to be sent to the federal district court in which the action was originally begun. An appeal
shall be taken within the time period specified in s. 808.04 (2).
The appeal shall be given preference.

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