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The Mysterious TikTok-ing Noise

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) issued a new policy report, The Mysterious TikTok-ing Noise. The report recaps the meteoric rise of the China-based social media app “TikTok,” and recounts the invasive ways that the software records data from its users. The report strongly recommends that Wisconsin take heed of federal warnings and follow some other states’ practices in prohibiting the app from government-owned devices.

SCOWIS Takes Appeal in Transportation Utility Fee Lawsuit

WILL continues to challenge illegal tax that burdens Wisconsin families and small businesses The News: The Supreme Court of Wisconsin (SCOWIS) has ...

Priced Out of House and Home

New WILL report shows how laws and regulation add to WI housing prices The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) issued a new ...

Bang for the Buck-y: Direct College Students Towards Degrees that Will Improve WI’s Workforce

New WILL report argues that universities must be held responsible for the student loan crisis  The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty ...

WILL Appeals WEC Complaint Over Illegal Racine Election Van

WILL continues to hold the Wisconsin Elections Commission accountable on unlawful absentee ballot collection The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law ...

School Choice Wisconsin Action & Schools Sue Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Over Unlawful Regulations

WILL holds DPI accountable for bureaucratic overreach, minimal barriers should be implemented for families to apply to school choice programs The News: On ...

WILL Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Review First Amendment Challenge to Mandatory State Bar Membership

First Amendment protects speech, association rights of attorneys The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed an amicus brief in ...

WILL and Dr. Anderson File Amicus in Case Against a Maryland School District Policy that Hides Gender Identity Transitions from Parents

Brief argues that parents have a right to participate in decisions involving their children, is the first such case to reach a federal court of ...

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WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg Joins RightWisconsin’s Week in Review

Rick Esenberg joined WTMJ AM620's Charlie Sykes and RightWisconsin's Collin Roth to discuss the Week in Review. You can listen to it here.  

Janesville Gazette | Research Shows Vouchers Do Benefit Students

WILL Economist Marty Lueken and Dr. James V. Shuls appear in the Janesville Gazette explaining that research shows that school vouchers do, indeed, ...

WILL’s Rick Esenberg: “Schools are not underfunded…”

WILL President Rick Esenberg blogging at Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel | Schools are not underfunded and they sold their local control "Here is a fact that ...

WILL’s Rick Esenberg joins Joy Cardin on WPR’s Week in Review

Opposite Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's Matt Rothschild, Rick Esenberg joined Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss the Week in Review. You can ...

WILL’s Rick Esenberg Participates in Attorney General’s Symposium on Open Government

Marshfield News-Herald | Wisconsin Openness Laws Evolve from Wood, Candle Days Attorney Brad Schimel: "'Messing with open government laws is like ...

WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg Discusses John Doe with Steve Walters on WisconsinEye

Mike Wittenwyler administrative and regulatory attorney at Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., and the lead attorney in the firm's Political Law Group; Donald ...

Wisconsin State Journal | Advocates: Open records law can adapt to changing technology without overhaul

Wisconsin State Journal | Advocates: Open Records Law Can Adapt to Changing Technology Without Overhaul More coverage of WILL's efforts on Open ...

WILL Associate Counsel Tom Kamenick Joins Jerry Bader to Discuss Green Bay’s Disregard for the 4th Amendment

WILL Associate Counsel Tom Kamenick joins Jerry Bader on air on WTAQ to discuss the City of Green Bay's destruction of a garden and it's disregard for ...

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