A Dane County judge will allow a lawsuit over Madison teacher contracts to go forward in its entirety, saying that a former Dane County supervisor does have standing to make all of the claims alleged in his lawsuit.

The lawsuit, brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty with conservative blogger David Blaska as plaintiff, seeks a declaration that teacher contracts for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years violate Act 10, the legislation that virtually eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public workers.

The Madison School District and Madison Teachers Inc. maintain that the contracts were signed during a time in which Act 10 was not in effect because of a court order.

The district and union had asked that portions of the lawsuit be stricken as immaterial because Blaska has no standing to raise issues related to union dues and fair share payments. Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess said they are not immaterial.

Under Wisconsin law, Niess wrote, “a taxpayer need only show that he has sustained, or will sustain, some pecuniary loss, however infinitesimal.”

You already know how I feel about teacher unions. Blaska is, of course, hated by Madison’s left, but I bet he could not care less about that.