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Quoted: Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School, called the decision a victory for people who thought cloning animals was morally wrong.

An expert on politics in Wisconsin is weighing in on the John Doe court ruling and what may happen next in the case. UW-Madison Political Science professor Donald Downs calls the ruling an endorsement of free speech in the context of politics, elections and campaigns.

Quoted: Reaction to Randa?s ruling were strong, and mixed. UW-Madison law professor Ben Kempinen said Wednesday that the federal judge took the ?extraordinary? step of stopping a state investigation even before charges were filed.

Quoted: “The credibility of the justice system has vaporized,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin. “The royalist conservatives may celebrate this judicial coup, but the world will mourn over the death of another democracy.”

Noted: Brooks Reynolds, co-founder of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival said, “We?re delighted to break bacon with the great people of Wisconsin.” And because Reynolds is nothing if not serious about bacon, he?s already enlisted the advice of Dr. Jeff Sindelar of University of Wisconsin?s Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory to recruit the state?s best bacons for the event.

Quoted: Tom Bakas of the UW-Madison Applied Security Analysis Program said Steinhafel failed in his leadership role, and fewer people were shopping at Target even before last December?s hacking incident.

Quoted: “The credibility of the justice system has vaporized,” said Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin. “The royalist conservatives may celebrate this judicial coup. But the world will mourn over the death of another democracy.”

Noted: Effective or not, the new recommendations are being taken seriously. In Wisconsin, most fairs are heeding McGraw?s advice and holding terminal shows, says Bernie O?Rourke, an extension youth livestock specialist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Instead of spring weigh-ins at which animals may mingle, some fairs are using DNA testing to verify animals? identities, O?Rourke says.

Quoted: ?I think it?s a reflection of how close we came to the financial markets really melting down and going into another depression,? said Steve Deller, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Christopher Olsen, a professor of public health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and Juergen Richt, a distinguished professor of veterinary medicine at Kansas State University in Lawrence, say PEDv is part of a family of coronaviruses that includes the SARS respiratory virus and others that have jumped from an animal host to humans.

Noted: Housing staff at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin said student housing is exploding near their campuses.

Quoted: ?They are flatlining,? said Steve Carpenter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who has studied the Yahara lakes since the 1970s. ?There are no trends in the lakes. The lake water quality is not getting better. It?s not getting notably worse. It?s as if the interventions we?re doing are just holding the line, running in place like the red queen in Alice in Wonderland.?