This morning, in one of its first actions after returning from summer recess, the Supreme Court announced it will hear Janus v. AFSCME, a case that challenges compulsory union dues. Janus will be one of the most influential cases of this term. Twenty-three states currently compel all public employees to
Read More →The leaders of four major public-sector unions slammed the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to take up the case of Janus vs. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Read More →In Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the Supreme Court will look to determine the constitutionality of a 1977 high court ruling — Abood v. Detroit Board of Education — that said public-sector employees who do not belong to a union can still be forced to
Read More →Later this month, thousands of teachers will return to the classroom and in 22 states they will be forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. Every summer, the Nevada Policy Research Institute and the Association of American Educators sponsors Employee Freedom Week, a week-long campaign to raise
Read More →As I’ve noted, many jurisdictions have repealed their bans on stun guns. People v. Yanna (Mich. Ct. App. 2012) struck down one such ban on Second Amendment grounds, and in Caetano v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court rejected some of Massachusetts’s arguments in favor of the stun gun ban. The court
Read More →Case: Martel v. Healey
No matter how offensive some speech is, the power of government can’t be used to signal the virtuous views of the legislature.
Read More →State governments can compel public-sector workers to pay union fees as a condition of employment, even when those workers are not union members. The U.S. Supreme Court approved this practice in the 1977 case Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, on the grounds that non-union “free riders” should still have
Read More →Teachers’ unions escaped a potentially devastating blow when the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case last spring, which meant the lower court ruling stood and they could continue to charge fees to nonmembers.
Read More →Anti-union groups are making another major push in the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate mandatory union dues, so-called “fair share” fees, for millions of public sector workers. This time, a full bench—if it takes the case—could end the deadlock that frustrated their efforts last year.
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