A Wisconsin judge said Thursday that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found "absolutely no evidence of election fraud," but did reveal contempt for the state's open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired.
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Conservative law firm raises concern about open-records ruling
A conservative law firm is pushing back against a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that transparency advocates say has damaged the state's open-records law by limiting when people who sue over records requests can recover attorney's fees.
Read More »Wisconsin court says parents suing school can’t be anonymous
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that parents suing the Madison School District over its gender identity policies must disclose their names to opposing attorneys, but they don't have to be revealed to the district or be made public.
Read More »Anti-abortion groups question grants by Wisconsin governor
Anti-abortion groups in Wisconsin on Monday questioned whether Gov. Tony Evers legally awarded about $2.4 million in federal stimulus money to Planned Parenthood, a move they claimed violated a state law prohibiting the funding of abortions.
Read More »Supreme Court won’t take challenge to absentee ballot boxes
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch's request that it take over an absentee ballot box challenge in Wisconsin, in a ruling Friday.
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to rule on ballot boxes
A conservative group Wednesday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take over a legal challenge to absentee ballot boxes in Wisconsin and immediately lift a lower court's ruling that kept current law in place.
Read More »Wisconsin lawsuit seeks reinstatement of 31,000 voters
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the Wisconsin Elections Commission reinstate voter registrations for nearly 32,000 people who were deactivated this summer.
Read More »Manufacturers sue over federal vaccine mandates for workers
Two Wisconsin manufacturers are among those suing to block the Biden administration from instituting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private-sector workers.
Read More »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.
Read More »Suit challenges restaurant aid priority to women, minorities
A conservative legal outfit filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against President Joe Biden's administration for the priority it has placed on restaurants and bars owned by women and certain minorities in its COVID-19 relief package, arguing white men are being "pushed to the back of the line" for aid for their eateries.
Read More »Private schools want Dane Co. in-person school limits tossed
A group of parents and private religious schools wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to nullify a Dane County order barring in-person classes for most students.
Read More »Wisconsin panel gives final approval on absentee ballots
The Wisconsin Elections Commission gave final approval to a mailing that will put application forms for absentee ballots in the hands of 2.7 million registered voters ahead of the November presidential election.
Read More »Group sues to restart Wisconsin DNR hunter-training courses
A Kansas-based hunting advocacy group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to force the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to restart in-person hunter-training courses.
Read More »Group wants to prevent ballot harvesting in Wisconsin
A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday to outlaw the process by which outside groups, typically partisan, help to send or return large numbers of absentee ballots.
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear voter purge case
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case seeking to purge about 129,000 voter registrations from the rolls ahead of the November presidential election after previously deadlocking on whether to get involved.
Read More »Szafir leaves WILL, joins conservative nonprofit group as president
CJ Szafir, the former executive vice president of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, has been named president of the conservative nonprofit group Institute for Reforming Government.
Read More »WILL appeals decision upholding Brown County sales tax
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty is appealing a circuit court decision upholding Brown County's sales tax.
Read More »Attorneys: Local stay-at-home orders on shaky legal ground
Local stay-at-home orders could be vulnerable to legal challenges after the state Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Tony Evers' statewide order went too far, attorneys warned Friday.
Read More »Wisconsin justices consider scaling back Evers’ veto powers (UPDATE)
The state Supreme Court was scheduled to hear oral arguments Monday in a pair of lawsuits seeking to rein in the governor's partial veto authority.
Read More »Marquette County sheriff sued for threatening teen over COVID-19 Instagram post
A teenager and her parents are suing the Marquette County Sheriff for threatening to arrest them over an Instagram post the teen wrote about having COVID-19.
Read More »GOP votes to hire attorney in voter purge lawsuit
Republican legislators have decided to hire their own attorneys in a federal lawsuit seeking to keep more than 200,000 voter registrations in place.
Read More »Complaint could make up to 234K Wisconsin voters ineligible
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.
Read More »Conservatives decry school district’s gender identity policy
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.
Read More »Attorneys sue State Bar over mandatory dues
Two attorneys are suing the State Bar of Wisconsin over the bar dues lawyers must pay to practice in the state.
Read More »Evers won’t force wedding barns to get liquor licenses
Gov. Tony Evers' spokeswoman says his administration won't force wedding barns to obtain liquor licenses.
Read More »Judge orders state education department to release records
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.
Read More »WHO’S DOING WHAT: Quarles names 2 new managing partners; WILL hires 4
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty recently announced new hires and promotions.
Read More »WHO’S DOING WHAT: Foley lawyer named to foundation board; Smith joins Boyle Fredrickson
Foley & Lardner recently announced that attorney Cynthia Rigsby has been named to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Read More »Wisconsin’s high court affirms use of economic incentives
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.
Read More »Wisconsin professor says firing shows anti-conservative bias
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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