Republican legislators have decided to hire their own attorneys in a federal lawsuit seeking to keep more than 200,000 voter registrations in place.

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More than a quarter-million voters in Wisconsin who have recently moved could be made ineligible to vote before next year's presidential primary election if a complaint filed Wednesday by a conservative law firm is successful.

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A conservative law group is challenging a Madison School District policy that prohibits school staff from telling parents if their child is transitioning genders at school, unless they have that student's permission.

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Two attorneys are suing the State Bar of Wisconsin over the bar dues lawyers must pay to practice in the state.

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Gov. Tony Evers' spokeswoman says his administration won't force wedding barns to obtain liquor licenses.

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A conservative legal group has sued Wisconsin's education department, saying it improperly withheld public records and illegally told school districts not to immediately release documents.

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The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty recently announced new hires and promotions.

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Foley & Lardner recently announced that attorney Cynthia Rigsby has been named to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation’s Board of Directors.

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The state Supreme Court affirmed on Wednesday that local governments can extend cash grants to developers in a case bolsters tax-increment financing, which local officials have relied on for years to boost projects like Foxconn Technology Group's new southeastern Wisconsin campus.

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A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post or his conduct.

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A weekly newspaper has settled a lawsuit with the Madison Police Department after police turned over hundreds of pages of records the publication paid for nearly a year ago.

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Two weeks ago, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals released a decision concerning whether the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act requires law-enforcement agencies to black out identifying information from documents when responding to record requests.

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During his successful re-election campaign, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele often said that he would consider and act on the best ideas from anyone — Democrat or Republican.

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