It Took a Village to Raise Kavanaugh
In the weeks ahead, we’re going to spend a lot of time going over the biography of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick. But that’s not the most important way to understand the person.
Read More →July 9, 2018
New York Times
June 28, 2018
Education Week
Teachers React to the Supreme Court Ruling That Ends ‘Fair Share’ Union Fees
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a heavy blow to teachers’ unions with their ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31.
Read More →June 27, 2018
Education Week
Supreme Court Deals Unions a Stinging Defeat in ‘Janus’ Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled a 41-year-old precedent and held that the teachers’ unions and other public-employee labor organizations may not collect fees for collective bargaining from workers who decline to join the union.
Read More →June 27, 2018
The 74
Divided Supreme Court Ends Mandatory Dues and — in Further Blow to Unions — Rules Members Must Opt In
The Supreme Court in a sweeping decision Wednesday upended the way public-sector unions do business, ruling that dissenting employees cannot be compelled to pay any dues, and that union members must affirmatively opt into membership — rather than requiring dissenters to opt out.
Read More →June 27, 2018
Christian Science Monitor
Court ruling a blow, not a knockout, to public unions
A US Supreme Court ruling Wednesday has dealt a sharp blow to public-sector labor unions at a time when organized labor is struggling to reverse decades of decline in membership.
Read More →May 2, 2018
Law.com
Why SCOTUS Picked Google Settlement to Test Cy Pres.
It’s a big win for Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who petitioned the Supreme Court to review the deal because it directed $5.3 million in unclaimed funds under the cy pres doctrineto third parties, including the alma maters of some of the plaintiffs lawyers, but provided no money to
Read More →Case: Frank v. Gaos
April 30, 2018
Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court Will Take a Closer Look at Class Actions
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is expanding its scrutiny of class actions, announcing Monday it would hear appeals in two separate cases from California that could curb remedies for alleged small harms that corporations caused for large numbers of individuals.
Read More →Case: Frank v. Gaos
March 19, 2018
The Hill
Agency fees are 100 percent political — and unions know it
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case involving “agency fees” that unions impose on workers who aren’t members to cover union activities with the exception of political action. Since the oral arguments took place, most news outlets, court watchers and even most union leaders have
Read More →March 19, 2018
Real Clear Policy
Does Requiring Union Dues Raise Worker Well Being?
The United States Supreme court is poised to decide in Janus v. AFSCME on the constitutionality of requiring “agency fees” be paid to public-sector unions by nonunion members.
Read More →March 8, 2018
Daily Signal
Union ‘Opt-Out’ Measures Could Dilute Supreme Court Ruling, Teachers Worry
Government workers who don’t want to join unions should be able to “opt in” rather than “opt out” of union fees that finance political activism, some California teachers argue.
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