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WILL President Rick Esenberg on Supreme Court Decision in Zignego v. WEC

WILL sued WEC in 2019 after state agency refused to clean up voter rolls The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a 5-2 decision, Friday, that the ...

WILL Demands WI Department of Corrections Clarify Policy on In-Person Clergy Visits

Religious volunteers unable to minister in-person at WI DOC facilities, violating inmate rights The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty ...

WILL Warns City of Madison New Bird-Safe Glass Ordinance Undermines Wisconsin’s Uniform Building Code

Notice of Claim warns Madison that city ordinance violates state law The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a Notice ...

Dane County Drops Most Fines Against Dance Studio

Health department enlisted the wrong attorneys and filed far too many counts The News: Dane County attorneys, on behalf of Public Health Madison and ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in WILL Religious Liberty Lawsuit

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to rule on state law in religious liberty case The News: The Wisconsin Supreme ...

Wisconsin’s Emergency Powers Laws in Urgent Need of Reform

New study examines Wisconsin’s emergency powers laws, provides recommendations for reform The News: A new study from the Wisconsin Institute for Law ...

3 Attacks on School Choice in Governor Evers’ Budget Proposal

By Will Flanders, Research Director Governor Tony Evers’ 2021-23 budget includes a Christmas tree for teachers unions in the form of ...

Judge Orders Wisconsin DNR to Hold February 2021 Gray Wolf Hunt

WILL sued DNR for violating state law by refusing to schedule winter 2021 hunt The News: Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Bennett J. Brantmeier ...

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Protecting Property Owners Against Eminent Domain Abuses

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals acted yesterday to protect property owners’ rights to receive full and just compensation when government takes their land ...

Madison Considers Forcing Food Truck Vendors to Offer Vegetarian Items

According to an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison is considering requiring all food cart vendors to offer “vegetarian menu items.”  Madison ...

Economic Freedom in Decline

Canada’s Fraser Institute has just released its 2012 Report on Economic Freedom across the world.  In the words of the Institute itself: “The United ...

The Hidden Costs of Fuel Efficiency Standards

The New York Times has an article that shows the unintended consequences and high costs of government policy that is designed to fool the voters.  Many ...

Corporate Rights Are Our Rights

Kudos to Milwaukee County Supervisor Chris Abele for vetoing the Milwaukee County Board's attempt to put a referendum on the ballot calling for an end to ...

Free Speech – Common Ground Between WILL and the ACLU

Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy shares this story about the ACLU of Connecticut defending the right of a high school student to wear an anti-gay ...

Free market at work. Consumers benefit. Government responds. The story in microcosm.

The Sheboygan Press recently reported on the growth of the food truck business in Sheboygan – and city government’s predictable reaction to a popular new ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

State v. Dinkins – Can a homeless sex offender be criminally charged for failing to provide his address for the sex offender registry when being released ...

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