The federal government’s effort to issue a workplace vaccine mandate has been put on pause due to a number of legal challenges and conflicting legislative efforts. This has left employers and employees on uncertain ground as to what, when, and how to implement a workplace policy. Before making any major workplace mandate determination, it is

On November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard requiring all employers with over 100 employees to enforce certain defined masking, vaccination, and testing protocols. Specifically, the 490-page Standard requires all qualifying workplaces to require masking for unvaccinated employees by no later than December 5, 2021. No later

In Wisconsin, various state departments, cities, towns, villages, school districts, and in some cases railroads and utilities, have the power to acquire property through condemnation. This is sometimes referred to as the power of eminent domain. Condemnation may take place without the consent of the owner of the property, provided the owner receives fair compensation

The law provides owners of property abutting navigable waters such as lakes and rivers rights of access to and use of those waters, commonly called “riparian rights.” Those rights are exclusive up to a point, but ultimately subject to the rights of the public and the State as trustee. Among those rights are the right