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Milwaukee’s $100 Million Opportunity

WILL urges Milwaukee to allocate ARPA funds to education, infrastructure, and public safety The News: The City of Milwaukee has a historic opportunity to ...

Legislature Should Protect Wisconsin’s Public Records Law

Recent court decision may cause government actors to withhold records. The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) issued a policy ...

WILL Applauds JCRAR Action Suspending WEC Ballot Curing Rule

The News: The Wisconsin legislature’s Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rule (JCRAR) suspended a Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) rule that ...

Department of Corrections Ban on Clergy Visits Ruled Unconstitutional

WILL sued Department of Corrections on behalf of Milwaukee Archdiocese The News: Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge William Hue issued a summary ...

State Agency Abandons Attempt to Regulate Pools at Rental Properties

WILL urged DATCP to remove burdensome regulations that impose huge costs on short-term rentals The News: A final rule proposal from the Wisconsin ...

Florida Small-Business Owner Sues Biden Admin. Over Race and Gender Quotas in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Massive new spending law reserves $37 billion for small businesses owned by certain minorities and women, violating constitutional rights The News: ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Holds Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes Unlawful

WILL challenged WEC guidance in lawsuit filed in June 2021 The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that absentee ballot drop boxes, used widely in the ...

Oconomowoc Schools Drop Legal Threat Aimed At Local Parent After WILL Response

After sending cease-and-desist letter the school district now considers the matter “closed” The News: The Oconomowoc Area School District (OASD) announced ...

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United States Supreme Court Rules for Homeowners and Against EPA

On March 21, 2012 the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (No. 10-1062).  Over the government’s objections, the ...

Court Allows Defendant Another Chance to Challenge One-Day Sentence

In a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Abrahamson, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided that a man convicted of misdemeanor theft and sentenced to one day ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Punts on Question of US DOJ Attorney Practicing in State Court

One of the many casualties of the 2008 securities market collapse was Ambac Assurance Corp., a firm involved with those complex transactions we hear so ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says No to Guano!

In a 5-2 decision authored by Justice Ziegler, the Wisconsin Supreme Court determined that a homeowner’s insurance policy excluded coverage for bat guano, ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

The Wisconsin Supreme Court released one new opinion last week – MBS-Certified Public Accountants, LLC v. Wisconsin Bell Inc. d/b/a AT & T Wisconsin, ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

The Wisconsin Supreme Court released one new opinion last week – Zwiefelhofer v. Town of Cooks Valley, authored by Chief Justice ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

The Wisconsin Supreme Court released three new opinions last week, including its first non-unanimous opinion of the 2011-12 term. The first two are ...

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