This week the United States Supreme Court overturned a Montana Supreme Court ruling that prohibited state funding from going to religious schools via a scholarship fund. Besides its substantive constitutional issues, the case demonstrates the procedural interplay between administrative agencies, state constitutions, and the federal Supreme Court.

In 2018, the Wisconsin Legislature passed Act 369 which allows the Wisconsin legislature to intervene in ongoing legal cases. But over a year after litigation landed Act 369 before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, there is still no ruling on whether intervention violates separation of powers.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court declared a judge’s Facebook friendship with a litigant an “appearance of bias” in violation of due process after a judge accepted a Facebook friend request from the mother in a custody dispute before rendering a decision.

DNR moves to issue its new high capacity well application review process as guidance, a procedure that does not provide nearly the same protections as rulemaking.

On May 1, Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Secretary of Natural Resources withdrawing Schimel’s Act […]

GLLF welcomes Amy Buchmeyer as its newest Counsel and Director of Development. Ms. Buchmeyer graduated from the University of Wisconsin […]