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STUDY: Spring 2020 School Closures May Result in $7 Billion Lifetime Earnings Loss to Wisconsin Students

This study estimates that spring 2020 school closures and incomplete curriculums could cost Wisconsin students more than $7 billion in lifetime earnings losses. The staggering cost serves as a stark warning about the effects of learning loss due to school building closures in the 2020-21 school year.

Dane County Health Department Relaxes Sports Restrictions After WILL Lawsuit

Legal challenge to authority of Dane County health department continues The News: Public Health Madison and Dane County, the local health department, ...

MPS Policy Pays Public Employees to Work for Teachers Unions

Union leave policy results in public subsidy to labor unions, violates Constitution’s ban on compelled speech The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law ...

WILL Hires New Attorneys, Adds Bradley Freedom Fellows

Department of Justice veterans bolster legal team, Bradley Freedom Fellows expand policy scope The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & ...

Wisconsin’s Open Enrollment Program Provides Critical School Choice Option for 62,000 Students

New study profiles open enrollment program, examines school district impact The News: With the approach of National School Choice Week, January 24-29, ...

WILL Files Lawsuit Challenging Dane County Health Department’s Authority to Enact COVID Restrictions

Lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court argues county board must approve health department’s restrictions The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & ...

WILL Warns City of Madison of Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Racial Discrimination

Notice of Claim asserts racial quotas violate the law, Constitution The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a Notice of ...

WILL Goes to Court in Rural School Choice Fight

Summary judgment hearing to determine fate of vacant elementary school The News: Attorneys from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) will ...

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United States Supreme Court Rules for Homeowners and Against EPA

On March 21, 2012 the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (No. 10-1062).  Over the government’s objections, the ...

Court Allows Defendant Another Chance to Challenge One-Day Sentence

In a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Abrahamson, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided that a man convicted of misdemeanor theft and sentenced to one day ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Punts on Question of US DOJ Attorney Practicing in State Court

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 ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Says No to Guano!

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, ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

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, ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

The Wisconsin Supreme Court released one new opinion last week – Zwiefelhofer v. Town of Cooks Valley, authored by Chief Justice ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Digest

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 ...

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