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Home » Press Releases » Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: UW-Madison barks up the wrong tree by investigating student group for beagle rescue flier
MADISON, Wis., June 25, 2026 — An animal rights student group faces a disciplinary investigation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after hanging fliers critical of a local dog breeder — an act that university officials are preposterously claiming encourages “criminal activity.” But UW-Madison is a public university bound by the First Amendment, and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Exp...