Critical questions remain before the court on emergency powers
The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a motion for summary judgment in Lindoo v. Evers, a lawsuit filed in Polk County Circuit Court challenging Governor Tony Evers’s legal authority to issue multiple ...
WILL Policy Brief revisits how state law was thwarted by local actors for the last five years The News: A new Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) policy brief reveals how a state law passed in 2015 intended to make vacant Milwaukee schools […]
Judge denies WILL’s motion for injunction
The News: St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge R. Michael Waterman denied the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty’s (WILL) motion for an injunction in a lawsuit challenging Governor Tony Evers’s legal authority to issue multiple emergency ...
WILL filed amicus urging Supreme Court to allow Legislature to defend state law
The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, held that the Wisconsin Legislature does have standing to defend state law when the Attorney General does not defend it. The Wisconsin Institute for Law ...
WILL filed an amicus brief arguing that the Legislature must be permitted to defend state law in federal court when others, typically charged with doing so, do not. The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed in a 4-3 decision. Proving the importance of that ruling, shortly after the Court’s decision, the Seventh Circuit stayed the District Court’s ruling, restoring Wisconsin’s election laws prior to the November election.
WILL sued MMSD for violating parental rights with gender identity policy
The News: Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington issued an injunction last week in a WILL parental rights lawsuit that forbids Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) employees from lying or deceiving parents ...