2012 News
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05.13.12Faculty & StaffFox6Now.comThe labor movement is staking all of its political clout on the recall of Gov. Walker. If Walker wins, the labor movement will be mortally wounded, having spent millions in money, manpower, effort and energy, all for nothing. “If Walker retains power, it will be a crushing blow to the labor movement,” Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Paul Secunda said.
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04.28.12Faculty & StaffJS OnlineAmid Act 10 and Wisconsin education cuts, high school to reformat education, lose teachers. Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy.
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04.16.12Sports Law InstituteFoxNews.com"Everyone knows, including anyone who's played in the NFL, that it's a violent game, said Matthew Mitten, the director of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University. "You didn't need the unfortunate circumstances of bounty-gate to tell us that."
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03.26.12Faculty & StaffWSAU.comMarquette University law professor Allison Barnes said one line of argument against the individual mandate is whether or not Congress can compel every American to buy health insurance? “This is the broccoli argument, that asks if you can make us buy health insurance, than can you make us buy broccoli?” Barnes said some mandates, such as seat belts and air bags, arguably already come close to the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. She said that if the justices were to rule the individual mandate unconstitutional, that could present major problems for the affordable...
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03.26.12Faculty & StaffThird Coast DigestThe act, also known as Obamacare, was signed by the President on March 23, 2010. And today, justices will begin hearing arguments that challenge its constitutionality. At the crux of the challenge is whether the federal government can force Americans to buy health care coverage or face a penalty, said J. Gordon Hylton, a constitutional law expert at Marquette University Law School. “The requirement that people have to buy health insurance – that’s the issue at least at the moment,” he said.
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03.26.12Faculty & StaffThe NationSuder, Fitzgerald and Walker advanced the ALEC model legislation in Wisconsin even though the state a strong tradition of respecting "self-defense" claims in shooting cases, and even though the State Bar of Wisconsin's Criminal Law Section argued that new legislation was unnecessary to protect homeowners from unfair prosecutions. Indeed, Marquette Law School Professor Gregory O’Meara, a former chairman of the Criminal Law Section, warned with regard to the "Castle Doctrine" proposal that: “It could actually give a presumption in favor of a murderer."
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03.06.12Faculty & StaffWisconsin State JournalFormer state Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske, now a law professor at Marquette University, said she has a lot of respect for Flanagan but said he should have disclosed to the parties in the case that he signed the petition and probably should not have heard the case. "It's something the parties should have known," Geske said. She said motions seeking Flanagan's recusal and the withdrawal of the order probably will be filed.
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03.01.12Faculty & StaffWatchDog.org“There are fascinating story lines, big names and not a lot of people talking about it. It has been a pretty quiet race,” Mike Gousha, who heads the public policy program at the Marquette University Law School, said. “Everything in politics here in Wisconsin is overshadowed by the recall.”
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02.28.12Current StudentsMarquette Law School
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02.27.12Faculty & StaffThe RepublicFormer Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske, who was on the court when the conferences were first opened, told the Journal Sentinel that she was disappointed in the decision. "I'm really sad in this time of distrust of government and distrust of the court that they're not going to hold the conference so people can see them be present," said Geske, now a Marquette University law professor.