March 14, 2012
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 much about – CDO’s, debt swaps,…
March 13, 2012
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, because damage from such a substance was excluded as a…
March 7, 2012
With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a Wisconsin public school teacher has filed an amicus curiae brief…
February 27, 2012
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, authored by Justice Bradley. This case…
February 14, 2012
The Wisconsin Supreme Court released one new opinion last week – Zwiefelhofer v. Town of Cooks Valley, authored by Chief Justice Abrahamson. In Zwiefelhofer, the court was tasked with determining whether…
February 9, 2012
In 2011, the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy made an open records request to State Senator Jon Erpenbach seeking all correspondence “regarding the subject of changes to Wisconsin’s…
February 8, 2012
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 fairly unremarkable cases. In Olson v. Farrar, the…
February 6, 2012
Today, WILL and several other entities involved in the petition to allocate utility costs for the Milwaukee Streetcar project filed briefs on the initial question of whether Brett Healy, as…
February 3, 2012
Last week, WILL filed an open records complaint in Jefferson County Circuit Court against the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. WILL’s client, the National Council for…
January 23, 2012
Citizens for Responsible Government Network (CRG Network) and WILL jointly announced today that WILL has filed a formal complaint with the St. Croix County District Attorney and the Wisconsin Attorney…
December 21, 2011
On December 1st, the PSC agreed to open an investigation to determine whether city of Milwaukee taxpayers or utility company ratepayers throughout southeastern Wisconsin will have to pay the bill…
December 1, 2011
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