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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 ...

Wisconsin Lutheran Sues City of Milwaukee For Unlawful Property Tax Assessment

WILL represents school in challenge to $105,000 in unlawful taxes The News: Attorneys with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed ...

Oconomowoc Schools Issue Legal Threat to Parent for Criticizing Age-Inappropriate Material in Classroom

School district hired law firm to send cease and desist letter to local parent The News: The Oconomowoc Area School District (OASD) issued a cease and ...

Judge Strikes Down Town of Buchanan’s Transportation Utility Fee

WILL challenged fee as an attempt to circumvent strict levy limits The News: Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Mark McGinnis struck down the Town of ...

Kiel Drops Title IX Complaint Against Middle Schoolers After WILL Defense

District backs down after WILL challenged sexual harassment investigation spurred by “mispronouning” allegation The News: The Kiel Area School District ...

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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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