Legal Opinion
UWM Student Association v. Michael Lovell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 2018No. 17-2499PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Student government elections rarely produce federal litigation. Wisconsin law, though, gives students at state universities rights to organize themselves and to run their governments, which have the power to spend substantial funds. Wis. Stat. § 36.09 (5). The combination of those state-law rights and fiscal powers can produce federal claims, even if the stakes are more modest than in most other disputes over state and local governance.
This case arises from a long-running feud between rival student governments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, commonly known as…
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