News and Updates

WILL Urges Wisconsin Supreme Court to Adopt Rules Petition to Hear Redistricting Challenges

WILL President and General Counsel, Rick Esenberg, appeared at a Wisconsin Supreme Court public hearing to advocate for a rules petition that, if adopted, would enable the Wisconsin Supreme Court to efficiently handle legal challenges to redistricting. WILL represents Scott Jensen, former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker, who was promised by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2002 that the Court would adopt rules for redistricting cases so that the Supreme Court would be in a position to handle such cases when they came up in the future.

WILL Warns City of Madison of Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Racial Discrimination

WILL filed a Notice of Claim putting the City of Madison on notice that an ordinance and resolution creating the new Police Civilian Oversight Board imposes unconstitutional racial quotas. WILL represents seven Madison residents challenging Madison’s decision to require nine members of the eleven-member Police Civilian Oversight Board to belong to specific racial groups – a clear violation of the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination.

Read more here.

Read the Wisconsin State Journal's coverage of WILL's Notice of Claim here.

Will Evers Act Quickly to Receive the Federal Relief Dollars for Private Schools?

As of Fall 2020, Wisconsin had spent $176 million of the roughly $405 million received under the CARES Act, or about 45%. Evers has through May 2021, one year from when he received the funds, to spend them. If Evers wants to show that he is not for a specific education sector, be it public or private, and instead cares about the education of all students across this state, he will apply promptly for this funding and will begin considering private school applications for the financial assistance as soon as the money is in the state’s hands.