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As legislators work on health care reform and President Barack Obama makes a decision about the war in Afghanistan, Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) asserted Friday that a public option is vital to true health care reform and troops need to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Feingold, who appeared in Mike Gousha’s “On the Issues” series at Marquette Law School, said it would be difficult to support a health care bill without a public option.

Feingold said he has strong reservations about a health care bill without a strong public option.

“I’m certainly not inclined to vote for it without a strong public option,” he said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recently rejected a weak public option proposal for the legislation he’s writing, Feingold said.

Reid’s current public option, which refers to a government insurance plan, would allow states to opt out of the program.

But unless states said they wanted out, it would exist there, Feingold said.

The goal, Feingold said, is to have a bill on the president’s desk before the State of the Union address in January.

[Marquette Tribune]

Marquette University Law School’s Restorative Justice Initiative will host a conference entitled “Bullying in Schools: Teaching Respect and Compassion Through Restorative Practices,” Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Alumni Memorial Union. The conference is free and open to public, but registration is required.

The conference will feature several emotional and informative presentations on the powerful consequences of bullying, including:
• “I was a Student Bully,” a discussion featuring four MPS students telling their stories as either the victim or perpetrator of bullying;
• “Cyberbullying and Social Interaction with Technology: How to talk to your child,” with administrators from Waukesha West High School and New Berlin Eisenhower High School who have recently dealt with high profile cyberbullying incidents.
• Milwaukee Public Schools’ use of the Restorative Justice practices, in which students discuss openly with each other how bullying affects them and the larger school community; and
• Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm on the legal consequences of bullying.

Guests will also include Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent William G. Andrekopoulos, who will present awards to students who participated in an art and essay contest. Keynote speaker Dr. Brenda Morrison, co-director of the Centre for Restorative Justice and assistant professor of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, will give a presentation entitled, “The Power Dynamics of Bullying: Negotiating the social and emotional work of the school community.” Janine P. Geske, distinguished professor of law and director of the Restorative Justice Initiative, Joseph D. Kearney, dean of Marquette Law School, and Jeffrey J. Altenburg, deputy district attorney in Milwaukee County, will give opening remarks.

[Media Newswire]

U.S. Senator Herb Kohl will be the next guest for “On the Issues” with Mike Gousha at Marquette University Law School Wednesday, Sept. 2. The event will be held at noon in Eisenberg Memorial Hall, 3rd Floor of the Law School, located at 1103 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Wisconsin’s senior senator will visit the Law School to discuss health-care reform and other important issues facing the nation. Kohl, a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1988. Before entering the world of politics, he helped build his family-owned business, Kohl’s grocery and department stores. Senator Kohl is also the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.

Gousha, an award-winning journalist, continues his “On the Issues” series of provocative and insightful interviews with local and national public officials, journalists and other newsmakers throughout the year. A complete schedule is available online.

[Media NewsWire]

Marquette University Law School has appointed attorney Michael Spector to lead a new effort to address public policy issues related to Milwaukee Public Schools.

The Law School will initiate a “neutral, consensus-building approach” to solve problems of the 80,000-student district’s governance, educational practices and other matters.

During his 36 years with the Milwaukee-based law firm of Quarles & Brady, Spector represented many Milwaukee-area school districts and corporations, and served as the firm’s chair and managing partner. He also was an associate deputy attorney general of the United States, and served as chairman of Gov. Jim Doyle’s Task Force on Educational Excellence. As an adjunct professor at the Law School since 2005, he has taught classes on education law and labor relations in the public sector.

[Business Journal of Milwaukee]

A task force of legal experts and community leaders will help Sen. Herb Kohl evaluate Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday in Milwaukee.

Kohl meets with the 11-member bipartisan panel at the Marquette University Law School.

President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor in May. She would be the first Hispanic to serve on the high court.

Sotomayor’s nomination hearings are scheduled to begin July 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kohl and fellow Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold sit on that committee.

Both senators voted to confirm Sotomayor in 1998 when President Bill Clinton nominated her for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

[620WTMJ]

The Marquette University Law School will provide mediation between lenders and residential borrowers facing foreclosure under a program funded with proceeds from a successful lawsuit against mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Marquette Law School dean Joseph Kearney announced Wednesday $310,000 in funding for the school to implement the Milwaukee Foreclosure Mediation Program. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the city of Milwaukee is also providing $100,000 for the program.

The Milwaukee Foreclosure Mediation program will be a voluntary, court-based independent mediation option for lenders and borrowers. The program, located at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, will seek to alleviate the current backlog of foreclosure cases in the county court system by offering the option of mediation to residential homeowners who reside in owner-occupied properties.

According to the Law School, in most cases, successful mediation will serve as a venue to work out new loan terms, a short sale or other solution that is mutually agreeable, and execute a final agreement between the parties.

[Milwaukee Business Journal]

The reaction from professors at Marquette University’s law school mirrored that on Capitol Hill, and the betting on who would get nominated began the day Justice David Souter announced his retirement.

“This is what we do in academia. We take bets on who’s going to be the next Supreme Court justice,” Professor Ed Fallone said.

On the Marquette faculty blog, Fallone predicted that Obama would pick Sotomayor.

“I think it’s an excellent choice,” Fallone said.

He said that as a woman and a Latina, Sotomayor meets critical needs on the bench and as a jurist, he sees a solid, moderate record.

“She sometimes sides with business interests, she sometimes sides with employees. She sometimes sides in favor of individual rights of free speech, other times she says you don’t have an absolute right to free speech,” Fallone said.

[WISN]

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