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• Public Financing of Supreme Court Races: The Legislature Whacks A Mole

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  In a forthcoming article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, I argue ( the metaphor is not original with me) that campaign finance reform is like a game of Whac-A-Mole™ in which the moles always win. The state legislature has passed public financing for state Supreme Court elections . I have no ...
  2 days ago

• Relationship Recognition Cases in the Wisconsin Courts

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  Wisconsin Supreme Court, via flickr user Photo Phiend The Wisconsin State Supreme Court announced this week their refusal to hear a case challenging the state’s domestic partnership registry that provides limited rights to couples.  The folks at Wisconsin Family Action say they’ll continue their challenge ...
  5 days ago

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Throws Out Challenge to State’s Domestic Partnership Law

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  Wisconsins Supreme Court has thrown out a legal challenge to the states domestic partnerships law. The law came into force on August 3rd, making Wisconsin the first mid-western state to pass such a law through legislation. Iowa allowed gay marriage earlier this year through a court ruling. ...
  6 days ago

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Gay Marriage Case

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 147
  The Wisconsin supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that charges the 2006 referendum that banned same-sex marriage and civil unions was unconstitutional. The plaintiff, William McConkey, believes the question put to voters in Referendum 1 violated the single-subject law in article XII, ...
  1 week ago

• Same-sex marriage — Maine and Wisconsin.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 740
  1. Maine voters rejected same-sex marriage: The Maine vote was particularly discouraging for gay-rights groups because it took place in New England, the region that has been the most open to same-sex marriage, and because opponents of the repeal had far outspent backers....  Throughout the bitter campaign, ...
  1 week ago

• Pondering the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Criminal Docket

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  Last week, I was delighted to participate in the Conference on the Wisconsin Supreme Court organized by Rick Esenberg.  The panel I moderated reviewed some of the court’s most significant criminal cases last term.  But “most significant” is a relative term, and I don’t think any of the panelists found the ...
  1 week ago

• Do I hear $1.7-million? Going once...

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  xoff Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is indignant over a proposed rule that justices recuse themselves from cases involving a party that has given them $1.000 or more, the Journal Sentinel reports: The sharpest questioning came from Justice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Merit Selection Amendment Introduced

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 535
  Yesterday, State Representative Mark Gottlieb (R-Port Washington) announced that he is drafting a constitutional amendment to replace Wisconsin’s current method of judicial elections with “merit selection.” Rep. Gottlieb is a former speaker pro tem of the Assembly, and he is widely regarded as one of the top ...
  2 weeks ago

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