Litigation

Individual Liberties Case Won

WILL Secures Settlement in Religious Censorship Case

The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has secured a settlement with the Arrowhead Union High School District after school administrators prevented WILL client Sarianne Beronja from displaying…

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Individual Liberties Open Case

NOCAMS MUSKEGO v. Waukesha County

Case Name: NOCAMS MUSKEGO v. Waukesha County Type of Case: Limited Government Project Court: Waukesha County Court Case Number: Filed On: September 10th, 2026 Current Status: WILL filed this lawsuit…

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Individual Liberties Case Won

Letter to Governor Evers: Demand Counties Retract Claim That Drive-Up Religious Services are Illegal

WILL and attorney Michael Dean issued a letter to Governor Tony Evers requesting that he clarify, correct, and restrain local government officials who are using Emergency Order #12, the “Safer at Home” order, to ban drive-up religious services conducted in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

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Individual Liberties Concluded Case

CITY OF BLOOMFIELD V. FELIX

Establishment Clause jurisprudence is hopelessly muddled and unmoored from its actual constitutional text. We filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to take a Ten Commandments case to straighten it out, but the Court declined.

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Individual Liberties Concluded Case

LAIR V. MANGAN

Can the government set campaign contributions so low that they effectively prevent political participation? We don’t think so, and so we filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Montana’s rock-bottom limits.

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Individual Liberties Open Case

WILL, Scott Walker Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Take Wisconsin Press Freedom Case

Case involves Governor Evers' decision to exclude certain journalists from press briefings The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) submitted an amicus to the U.S. Supreme Court,…

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Constitutional Government Concluded Case

WILL Asks Wisconsin Elections Commission to Ban Ballot Harvesting

WILL submitted a rules petition to the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) asking the state agency to promulgate a rule that makes clear that the practice of ballot harvesting is illegal in Wisconsin.

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Constitutional Government Concluded Case

WILL Urges Wisconsin Supreme Court to Adopt Rules Petition to Hear Redistricting Challenges

WILL filed a rules petition that, if adopted, would enable the Wisconsin Supreme Court to efficiently handle legal challenges to redistricting.

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Constitutional Government Concluded Case

CHRISTIE V. NCAA

The federal government prohibited New Jersey from repealing its ban on sports gambling. We filed an amicus brief arguing the federal government can’t force states to keep old laws on the books, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed.

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Constitutional Government Concluded Case

GILL V. WHITFORD

A 3-judge panel employed a novel theory to invalidate Wisconsin’s legislative redistricting map. We filed an amicus brief arguing that theory is foreclosed by binding precedent and the map is lawful.

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Constitutional Government Case Won

WILL V. MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Sometimes we need to file a suit on our own behalf. The Milwaukee Public Schools were unreasonably delaying responding to a records request. They turned the records over the day after we sued them.

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Constitutional Government Open Case

AMERICANS FOR CITIZEN VOTING V. WEC

WILL represents Americans for Citizen Voting in a challenge to Wisconsin Act 126, which restricts who may circulate nomination papers.

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Economic Freedom Case Won

WILL Warns DATCP Against Regulating New Pool Sharing Start-Up

WILL issued a letter to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) warning the state agency that any attempt to enforce certain regulatory restrictions on the start-up Swimply, a growing online platform that allows homeowners to make their underutilized residential swimming pools available for rent, would be a violation of state law.

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Economic Freedom Concluded Case

KRIST OIL V. WISCONSIN

The State of Wisconsin thinks consumers need to be protected from low prices, and has passed a law prohibiting retailers from setting prices too low. It also requires some products to be sold at a substantial markup – a hidden tax on consumers that goes straight into the pockets of business owners. We sued to get rid of that law.

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Economic Freedom Concluded Case

VOTERS WITH FACTS V. CITY OF EAU CLAIRE (TID 8 & 10)

Cities around the state use TIF districts as a way to give taxpayer funds to developers while claiming that the money is “free”. State law requires cities to follow very strict procedures in order to create TIF districts. When Eau Claire failed to follow those procedures, we sued to hold them accountable.

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Economic Freedom Open Case

ISMAIL V. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

On behalf of a Milwaukee food truck owner, WILL filed a lawsuit seeking to block a newly approved food truck curfew.

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Economic Freedom Open Case

EARLE ASPHALT COMPANY, INC. V. NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY

WILL and the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Earle Asphalt Company challenging New Jersey mandates that impose race- and sex-based hiring quotas and compel unionization.

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Economic Freedom Case Won

CLINTON V. SISTER BAY

WILL sued the Village of Sister Bay over an irrational rule that limits the number of bedrooms vacationers can use in a rental home and restricts where they can sleep.

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Education Reform Concluded Case

Public School Curriculum Transparency Legislation Key to Battling Politics in the Classroom

WILL is urging the adoption of curriculum transparency legislation to arm parents and taxpayers with the ability to access and review controversial curriculum material in public schools. WILL recently issued identical open records requests to nine large Wisconsin school districts and experienced, first-hand, the cost, time, and difficulty of accessing curriculum material.

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Education Reform Concluded Case

WISCONSIN PTA V. WISCONSIN STATE ASSEMBLY

WILL represents a group of Wisconsin taxpayers and parents in a motion to intervene in Wisconsin PTA v. Wisconsin State Assembly, a case seeking to have the judiciary set education funding and to curtail Wisconsin’s School Choice Programs.

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Education Reform Open Case

PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM TRANSPARENCY

Curriculum transparency legislation would arm parents and taxpayers with the ability to access and review controversial curriculum material in public schools.

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Education Reform Case Won

SCWA V. BOWERSOX

WILL filed an original action petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court urging the Court to accept a legal challenge to the City of Racine’s school closure order.

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Education Reform Case Won

WCRIS V. HEINRICH

WILL filed an original action to the Wisconsin Supreme Court asking for a review of the Dane County health department’s order closing all schools, public and private, for grades 3-12.

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Education Reform Case Won

HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS V. DPI

WILL sued the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on behalf of a West Allis family, Heritage Christian Schools, and School Choice Wisconsin Action (SCWA), after the department adopted an illegal policy to block a family from enrolling in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP) – the statewide voucher program.

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Equality Under the Law Open Case

Brown County Taxpayers v. Evers

Thirty-three years after Wisconsin voters amended the Constitution to prevent future gambling expansions, lawmakers enacted Act 247 without another voter-approved constitutional amendment. With Governor Evers preparing to negotiate tribal gaming…

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Equality Under the Law Case Won

WILL Represents Concordia Professor Suspended for Criticizing Woke Direction of University

UPDATE: A Settlement Has Been Reached… Read More Here.  On Saturday, February 19, 2022, Concordia University Wisconsin suspended Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz, a full professor of philosophy and Lutheran pastor.…

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Equality Under the Law Open Case

Citizens Defending Liberty v. Evers

WILL filed a new lawsuit challenging the Wisconsin Supplier Diversity Program, a procurement program that spends over $250 million each year purchasing supplies and services based on race. White, Middle Eastern, and most Asian small-business owners are ineligible for this program simply because of their race.

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Equality Under the Law Concluded Case

WILL Warns of Lawsuit Against DEI Grant Program in Wisconsin

WILL issued a formal cease-and-desist to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the ColorBold Business Association, SCORE Mentors, and UW-Madison regarding the “Entrepreneur of Color Collective Grant” (ECC Grant). The grant, funded by a $95,000 WEDC investment from Governor Tony Evers, illegally bars business owners from applying based solely on their skin color.

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Equality Under the Law Open Case

CDC Labels Minority Neighborhoods as “Vulnerable,” Encouraging the Spread of DEI Spending Nationwide

In new findings provided to the Trump Administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) agency, WILL has uncovered that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) uses a race-based criteria to declare whole communities and neighborhoods as “socially vulnerable” based on the number of minorities living there. Cities and states around the country rely on the CDC’s “social vulnerability index” (SVI) to allocate taxpayer funding for parks, drinking water, and disaster assistance.  

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Equality Under the Law Open Case

YAF v SBA

WILL and the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) filed a major lawsuit against the Trump Administration today, targeting the foundation for many of the remaining federal DEI programs: the preference for so-called “socially disadvantaged individuals.”

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