public-employees

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-280 Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection disassociation-rights first-amendment government-unions public-employees union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to disassociate from the union?
25-156 Freedom Foundation v. Rita Gail Turner, in Her Official Capacity as Litigation Research Coordinator in the Public Records Act Unit, Office of General Counsel, Los Angeles School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-information first-amendment labor-law public-employees union-membership viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that prevents anyone but incumbent unions from accessing information necessary to communicate with public employees before they are recr…
24A1248 Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Presumed Complete dues-deduction first-amendment free-association public-employees resignation-restrictions union-membership Question not identified.
23-1112 Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds For nearly fifty years, this Court has held that public sector labor unions can fund political speech only through "charges, dues, or assessments paid…
23A786 Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques…
23A792 Glenn Laird v. United Teachers Los Angeles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent labor-organization public-employees union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques…
23A780 Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-membership Question not identified.
23-672 Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied civil-rights concerted-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-pickering group-speech petition-rights public-employees summary-judgment This Court, in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018) and United States v. Nat'l Treasury Emples. Union, 513 U.S. 454, 115 S. Ct. 1003 (1…
23A383 Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete first-amendment garcetti-pickering group-speech public-concern public-employees summary-judgment Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of the Garcetti/Pickering test to analyze a group's concerted speech to elected officials was appropriate in l…
23-372 Torey Jarrett v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights consent due-process public-employees public-sector-unions state-action state-actor union-dues wage-deduction wage-deductions 1. Is a state-designated exclusive representative a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when it directs a public employer to deduct dues from non-union…
21-992 Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response Waived belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 248…
21-609 Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver 1. Under the First Amendment, to seize payments for union speech from employees who resigned union membership, became nonmembers, and objected to subs…
21-575 Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work…
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues 1. Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived …
19-726 Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector In determining whether or not the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees as set forth by this Court in Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S.…
18-766 Teresa Bierman, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) exclusive-representation expressive-association first-amendment government-speech heightened-scrutiny individual-rights mandatory-expressive-association mandatory-representation public-employees rational-basis The State of Minnesota compels individuals who are not public employees, namely individual Medicaid providers, to accept an exclusive representative f…