| 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… |