WJI v. WEC: Informing Voters of What’s on the Ballot
We argued that Marsy’s law wasn’t fully, properly, or accurately presented to Wisconsin voters, leading voters to make a decision about a proposal about which they were not fully informed.
At any given time, the ACLU of Wisconsin has thirty to forty active matters on its litigation docket. From municipalities infringing on individuals' free speech rights, to schools not taking race-based bullying seriously, to broader statewide issues.
We argued that Marsy’s law wasn’t fully, properly, or accurately presented to Wisconsin voters, leading voters to make a decision about a proposal about which they were not fully informed.
When Black and biracial students faced racial harassment and disparate punishment in the Oshkosh Area School District, the ACLU of Wisconsin took the case to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of...
In February 2020, several parents anonymously sued the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin state court. The parents claimed...
In 2022, the ACLU of Wisconsin submitted public comments regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Enbridge's proposed relocation of its Line 5...
The ACLU of Wisconsin vigilantly defends First Amendment rights in schools. We believe in an educated citizenry and a society where ideas are openly disseminated and...
As a result of our lawsuit, the supermax prison was restricted from housing mentally ill prisoners and required to grant the same rights as other max security prisons.