January 26, 2015
Friedrichs v. CTA, CIR’s challenge to compulsory union dues, is one step closer to the Supreme Court. On January 26, Michael Carvin, lead counsel in the case, filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court. The petition asks the Court to take the case and rule that
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Washington, DC, January 26, 2015—Teachers fed up with paying dues to unions that do not represent their interests could soon be getting their day in court. Together with Jones Day’s Michael Carvin, the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) today petitioned
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December 22, 2014
Michael Carvin, counsel to the petitioners in King v. Burwell, filed his opening brief before the Supreme Court on December 20. King challenges the Obama Administration’s claim that it may subsidize the cost of individual healthcare policies even in states that have not created state healthcare exchanges. On December 22, the Supreme
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November 18, 2014
A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order granting the plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Affirmance on the Pleadings. That means Rebecca Friedrichs and her co-plaintiffs are now free to petition the Supreme Court for review of their challenge to compulsory union
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November 10, 2014
Friedrichs v. CTA, CIR's suit to end compulsory union dues, was featured on several national news programs in November:
Fox & Friends on Sunday, November 9: watch here
Varney & Co. with Stuart Varney on Monday, November 10 at 11:45 am EST: watch here
William Bennett's Morning in
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November 07, 2014
The Supreme Court announced that it will hear King v. Burwell, a case challenging the Obama Administration’s claim that it may subsidize the cost of individual healthcare policies even in states that have not created state healthcare exchanges. King is one of two cases in which CIR filed an amicus brief
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November 03, 2014
This fall’s campaign provided further evidence of the ongoing harm to the free speech rights of CIR client Rebecca Friedrichs, her fellow plaintiffs, and thousands of other public employees. The unions spent big on behalf of Democratic party candidates and causes — nothing unusual about that. What is news is the
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October 23, 2014
The Ninth Circuit issued an order referring Friedrichs’s Urgent Motion for Summary Affirmance to that court’s motions panel in either November or December. This means her case could possibly come before the Supreme Court in the current term, which ends next June, 2015.
The new order was a change from the
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October 21, 2014
Lead Counsel Michael Carvin filed a reply brief in King v. Burwell, one of two cases challenging the Obama Administration’s interpretation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Carvin’s brief urged the Court to promptly review a decision by the Fourth Circuit in which that court held that the
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October 17, 2014
Lead Counsel Michael Carvin filed two urgent motions in Friedrichs v. CTA intended to speed the case through the Ninth Circuit as quickly as possible. As Carvin’s team has made clear from the outset of the case, Mrs. Friedrichs and her co-plaintiffs cannot prevail before the lower federal courts because
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