{"id":15487,"date":"2025-02-24T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:55:51","slug":"court-watch-will-the-supreme-court-make-wisconsin-alabama-north-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15487","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: Will the Supreme Court Make Wisconsin \u201cAlabama North\u201d Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-will-the-supreme-court-make-wisconsin-alabama-north-again\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-will-the-supreme-court-make-wisconsin-alabama-north-again\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Tort-Reform.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7019 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Tort-Reform-1-232x300-1.png\" alt width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Delafield, Wis.<\/b><span> \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Tort-Reform.pdf\"><span>\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday detailing where the Wisconsin Supreme Court was and could be headed on civil law reform. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Tort-Reform.pdf\"><span>primer<\/span><\/a><span> outlines\u00a0<\/span><span>how Wisconsin\u2019s economy and business climate depends on its civil litigation environment, and how reverting to the past will put Wisconsin businesses on notice.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b><span> A strong Wisconsin economy depends on a fair, efficient, predictable legal system that prevents a \u201cjackpot justice\u201d approach to civil law. Wisconsin was once known as \u201cAlabama North,\u201d a tort hellhole for employers and a haven for trial lawyers looking to make a quick fortune. Under Governor Scott Walker, the State adopted a number of laws that better balanced the civil legal system with common-sense reforms that incorporated many principles of law from the federal courts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cReverting to the past will make Wisconsin \u2018Alabama North\u2019 once again. Wisconsin\u2019s economic well-being depends on the courts more than some employers and business owners realize,\u201d <\/b><span>said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of IRG\u2019s CIO. <\/span><b>\u201cMany reforms signed by Gov. Walker are at risk of being terminated by future Supreme Court action, and businesses must take note.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT\u2019S NEXT: <\/b><span>State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-will-the-supreme-court-make-wisconsin-alabama-north-again\/ Delafield, Wis. \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}