public-sector
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-2 | Camille Bourque v. Engineers and Architects Association, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-v-afscme labor-unions public-sector section-1983 union-dues wage-deduction | 1. Is the First Amendment violated when a union causes a government employer to seize full union dues from the wages of a nonconsenting employee? 2. … |
| 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… |
| 23-1113 | Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | affirmative-consent collective-bargaining compelled-speech first-amendment labor-union labor-unions public-employee public-sector waiver-of-rights | Public sector labor unions cannot use state law to take money from a nonmember public employee's lawfully earned wages for use in political speech unl… |
| 23-634 | Pollyanna Burns, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 284, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Response Waived | dues-deduction first-amendment janus janus-precedent opt-out public-sector public-sector-employees state-action state-actors union-dues | (1) Whether the First Amendment waiver requirement identified by the Supreme Court in Janus applies to public-sector employees at the time they sign a… |
| 22-577 | Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues | Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' … |
| 22-116 | Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection | Second Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation | Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St… |
| 21-854 | Rachel Maniscalco, et al. v. New York City Department of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-rights executive-order government-action professional-restriction public-health public-sector substantive-due-process vaccination | Respondents through an Executive Order demanded COVID-19 vaccinations for all public school employees, including teachers. Those who did not comply ha… |
| 21-615 | Christopher A. Woods, et al. v. Alaska State Employees Association, AFSCME Local 52, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | first-amendment free-speech public-sector state-action union-dues waiver | The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2486 … |
| 21-597 | Patricia Grossman v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-consent civil-rights free-speech janus-v-afscme public-sector union-dues | 1) Whether a union can trap a public worker into paying dues without the "affirmative consent" required by Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 244… |
| 21-357 | Lucille S. Taylor v. James W. Heath, President-Elect, State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | compelled-speech exacting-scrutiny first-amendment integrated-bar keller-v-state-bar labor-unions policy-positions public-sector public-sector-employees | In Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S.Ct. 2448 (2018), this Court held that laws that impinge on public-sector employees' First Amendment rights are subject to "e… |
| 20-1019 | Jade Thompson v. Marietta Education Association, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights compelled-association first-amendment free-speech knight-v-minnesota labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees representative-advocacy | Three times in recent years, this Court has recognized that schemes compelling public-sector employees to associate with labor unions impose a "signif… |
| 19-892 | United States, ex rel. Andrew Gelbman v. City of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | false-claims-act fraud inference-drawing medicaid medicaid-fraud pleading-standard private-sector public-sector public-sector-providers rule-9b-dismissal | The first question presented is: whether the pleading standard should be different for False Claims Act claims against public sector Medicaid provider… |
| 19-847 | Jonathan Reisman v. Associated Faculties of the University of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees | Whether it violates the First Amendment to designate a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who object to its advocacy on th… |
| 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.… |
| 18-719 | Kathleen Uradnik v. Inter Faculty Organization, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | association associational-freedoms compelled-association constitutional-scrutiny exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-sector public-sector-employees | Whether it violates the First Amendment to appoint a labor union to represent and speak for public-sector employees who have declined to join the unio… |