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Jul 9, 2021

Free to raise tuition, UW regents choose not to

University of Wisconsin System leaders voted Thursday against raising tuition just hours after Gov. Tony Evers signed a budget that gave them the ability to do so for the first time in years.

Jul 8, 2021

Purdue Pharma settlement to net $65m for Wisconsin

Wisconsin is in line to receive $65 million as part of a $4.3 billion multistate settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over its role in the opioid crisis, Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Thursday.

Jul 8, 2021

Court of Appeals: Ozaukee County village must pay fees, costs in open-records lawsuit

An Ozaukee County village must pay at least part of its former trustee's attorney fees, costs and statutory damages in an open-records lawsuit, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday.

Jul 8, 2021

Foley partners with Boys & Girls Clubs to support organization’s diversity efforts

Foley & Lardner is working with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to support the youth-development organization's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Jul 8, 2021

Court: DNR can impose farm conditions, consider well effects (UPDATE)

Wisconsin regulators can impose operating conditions on factory farms and consider high-capacity wells' cumulative environmental impacts when deciding whether to grant permits, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Jul 8, 2021

Mailer sent to 100,000 Wisconsin voters who may have moved

Nearly 100,000 Wisconsin voters identified as potentially having moved since the fall of 2019 are being mailed post cards from the state Elections Commission this week telling them how to ensure their registration address is up to date.

Jul 7, 2021

WILL starts new litigation center to challenge race discrimination, Critical Race Theory

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has started a new litigation center to challenge race discrimination, quotas and Critical Race Theory.

Jul 7, 2021

Rittenhouse attorney wants to show victim was sex offender

Kyle Rittenhouse's attorney wants a judge to allow him to argue that one of the men his client fatally shot during a Wisconsin protest was a sex offender, saying the contention supports the defense's idea that he attacked Rittenhouse and intended to take his gun because he couldn't legally possess one.

Jul 6, 2021

Evers defends his signing of opioid bill despite concerns

Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday defended signing a bill that he believes is partially unconstitutional and that every Democrat except one in the Legislature opposed, saying the measure will speed disbursement of settlement money with opioid manufacturers.

Jul 6, 2021

Reinhart to begin Mansfield Rule 5.0 diversity certification

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren is set to begin a national certification program to increase diversity among the firm's leaders.

Jul 6, 2021

After split reasoning on certified question, private-school busing lawsuit to return to 7th Circuit

A lawsuit over busing requirements for private, religious schools in Wisconsin will return to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jul 6, 2021

Gableman will get $44K to lead GOP’s election investigation

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos plans to pay former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman $44,000 to lead a probe of 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin.

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