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NEW | Equality Under the Law Case Over Race and Gender Quotas

Florida small-business owner, Christian Bruckner, filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden Administration challenging unconstitutional race and gender quotas in the new $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure law. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”), signed by President Biden in November 2021, contains $37 billion in new spending reserved exclusively for small businesses owned by certain minorities and women.

⚖️ Learn more about WILL's Equality Under the Law Project.

📰 Check out these articles from the National Review and The Federalist, highlighting WILL's latest lawsuit.

🎙 Listen to Deputy Counsel Dan Lennington discuss details of the case with Dawn Stensland on 1210 WPHT.

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Department of Corrections Ban on Clergy Visits Ruled Unconstitutional

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge William Hue issued a summary judgment decision that holds the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WIDOC) violated state law and the state constitution when the agency barred Catholic clergy from ministering in-person to the spiritual needs of inmates under a COVID-19 visitor policy. WILL sued WIDOC in May 2021 on behalf of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee seeking invalidation of the visitor policy. That policy, in effect for over a year, contained no exceptions for vaccinated clergy or instances where religious services could not be conducted virtually; yet, WIDOC simultaneously granted institutional access to lawyers, public officials, and members of the press, among many others.

🗞 Read Scott Bauer's article in The Associated Press about this recent WILL win.

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State Agency Abandons Attempt to Regulate Pools at Rental Properties

A final rule proposal from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) removes proposed burdensome regulations and licensing requirements that would have blanketed short-term rentals with pools and hot tubs in red tape. WILL submitted a comment in April urging DATCP to remove the regulations from their rule proposal.

🗯 WILL Policy Director, Kyle Koenen, stated “It’s encouraging to see DATCP abandon their efforts to impose burdensome red tape on short-term rental owners with pools and hot tubs. Property owners will now have some well-deserved certainty that they can make a living without the heavy hand of government impeding their ability to do so.”

🗞 Read Benjamin Yount's article in The Center Square, mentioning this WILL victory.

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OPINION | Our kids' schools told us to 'cease and desist' but we're fighting back

Wisconsin moms Alexandra Schweitzer and Julia Crile Zaccaria were sent cease and desist letters from their local school districts. They write at Fox News on the obstacles put in their way when they tried to hold their school districts accountable.

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