1. Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of free association protects a public employee's right to resign membership in a union.

2. Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech protects a public employee's right to stop a government's deduction of union dues from his wages.

3. Whether a local municipality is liable for damages if it deprives a public employee of constitutional rights pursuant to a discretionary policy it chose to collectively bargain with a union which compels an objecting public employee to continue union membership and dues payments.

4. Whether a union acts "under color of law" when it instructs a government employer to deduct union dues from a public employee's wages pursuant to state law and a policy it collectively bargained with the government employer which compels an objecting public employee to continue union membership and dues payments.

Whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to resign union membership and stop government-deducted union dues