union-membership

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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…
25-66 Alliance Marc & Eva Stern Math & Science High School, et al. v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. California 2025-07-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-employers union-membership In 2017, California enacted the Prohibition on Public Employers Deterring or Discouraging Union Membership (PEDD). The PEDD prohibits "public employer…
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.
24-122 Michael Craine v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights first-amendment free-association free-speech municipal-liability public-employee state-action union-dues union-membership 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 Fir…
23-1215 Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response Waived color-of-law compelled-speech dues dues-payments first-amendment free-speech political-speech public-employee union union-membership 1. As a matter of first impression, whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to disassociate from a union —by resigning union me…
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.
22-1096 Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine In Janus v. AFSCME, this Court held that government employers may not withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union unless the employee affirma…
22-498 Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will?
22-216 Terry C. Cooley v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contract-restrictions first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme public-sector-union public-sector-unions resignation-limitations state-employer-contracts union-membership 1. After this Court's ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), petitioner…
22-212 Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to compel employees to subsidize union speech. 138…
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…
20-1813 Terry Foster, et al. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1516, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied 501b due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty good-cause labor-law lmrda subject-matter-jurisdiction union-member union-membership 1. Did expulsion of a union member without his presence constitute a lack of due process, good cause as defined by 157.01 LMRDA, Section 501(b)? 2. D…
18-1070 Village of Lincolnshire, Illinois, et al. v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR employment-law federalism labor-relations labor-unions local-government municipal-ordinance national-labor-relations-act political-subdivision preemption right-to-work state-law statutory-interpretation union-membership Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act states that nothing in the Act "shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of ag…