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Wisconsin Supreme Court may decide: Must Brown County put all sales taxes it collects toward property tax cuts? Doug Schneider, Green Bay Press-Gazette © Ebony Cox/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Shoppers purchase and return items the day after Christmas at Bay Park Square Mall in Ashwaubenon, Wis. One of the groups suing Brown County over its 3-year-old sales tax remains optimistic a court will find the tax illegal, despite lower-court rulings that the county can continue to collect the money from local shoppers. The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the...

  The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Courtgranted a request from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Thursday, to consider a question of Wisconsin state law in St. Augustine v. Taylor, a religious liberty lawsuit first filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) in 2016. The state Supreme Court will decide how Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) determines whether two or more schools are “private schools affiliated with the same religious denomination.” In the case before the court, DPI is determining the availability of a government b...

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A national hunting group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force an immediate start to Wisconsin’s wolf season before President Joe Biden’s administration restores federal protections for the animals. The Trump administration removed Great Lakes wolves from the federal endangered species list last month, handing management rights to the states. Wisconsin law requires the Department of Natural Resources to hold a wolf hunt between November and February; the agency is planning a season that will begin in November. A group of Republican legislators demanded t...

The DNR's policy board voted 4-3 last month against opening the season by Feb. 10 amid concerns that the department had not consulted tribal nations as required by treaties and did not have time to set quotas.