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Friedrichs Rehearing Petition Denied

Jun 28, 2016 Juhyung Harold Lee

Months after reaching a 4-4 tie in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the Supreme Court has denied the petitioners’ request for a rehearing. The Court waited until its final conference of the Term to vote on the petition, after postponing its decision eight times since April. No opinion was included with the Court’s denial. While […]

Friedrichs Opinion

Mar 29, 2016 Juhyung Harold Lee

In case you missed it, the Supreme Court has handed down a 4-4 affirmance of the lower court’s opinion in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The Court’s 1977 opinion in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education thus remains good law, and public-sector unions may continue to collect agency fees from nonmembers.

Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

Feb 14, 2016 Juhyung Harold Lee

With yesterday’s news of Justice Scalia’s unexpected passing, the consensus seems to be that the Supreme Court will reach a split 4-4 decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. In such an occurrence, the Ninth Circuit’s decision below — which upheld California’s fair-share fee requirement pursuant to the principles announced in Abood v. Detroit Board […]

Friedrichs, Citizens United, and the "Free-Speech Gap"

Jan 18, 2016 Juhyung Harold Lee

If Citizens United “promised something like a level playing field” for corporate and union political spending, what might Friedrichs do to upset that supposed equilibrium? In case you missed it, Adam Liptak examined this question today in the New York Times. Liptak notes at the outset of his article that the “level playing field” has proven […]

Friedrichs and the Private Sector

Jan 14, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

Friedrichs is a case about fair share fees in the public sector. The question is whether the First Amendment prohibits public employers from bargaining and enforcing fair share agreements. So it was notable that one of the first questions during Monday’s oral argument – and the first question that Justice Kennedy asked petitioners’ counsel – […]

Friedrichs Versus Wisconsin’s Act 10: A Brief Primer

Jan 13, 2016 Jake Rosenfeld

This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Friedrichs case, and unions and their supporters are bracing for the worst. The legal case in support of the Abood precedent has been persuasively defended by Benjamin Sachs, Katherine Fisk, and Andrew Strom on this blog. Alas, if the oral arguments provide a guide, a […]

Guest Post: Free Riding and Friedrichs

Jan 13, 2016 Benjamin Levin

Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Trying to read the tea leaves in oral argument questions can be a risky proposition. But, one particular exchange during Monday’s argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association between Chief Justice John Roberts and California Solicitor General Edward DuMont is worth a […]

Bar Associations Are Much More Like Unions Than Friedrichs’ Attorney Acknowledged

Jan 13, 2016 Andrew Strom

At the Friedrichs oral argument, Justice Ginsburg asked Michael Carvin, the attorney for Rebecca Friedrichs, how a decision overruling Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, would affect Supreme Court decisions authorizing mandatory fees to bar associations. Whether intentional or not, Carvin’s answer was more than a little misleading. To back up, a number of states […]

The Friedrichs Oral Argument & How A Majority Would Overrule Abood

Jan 12, 2016 Catherine Fisk

It has been widely reported that the oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association suggests that five justices are poised to strike down fair share fees for public-sector employees in the twenty-plus states that allow them. The crucial votes were thought to be Justice Kennedy (the swing vote, and also the author of the […]

Re-Post: A Further Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

Jan 12, 2016 Catherine Fisk

Note: This post was originally published on October 5th, and is being re-published in light of yesterday’s oral arguments in Friedrichs. Given Justice Scalia’s consistent view that public employees have minimal free speech rights, doctrinal consistency should require him to reject the First Amendment challenge to union fair share fees in Friedrichs. As Professor Sachs points […]

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Friedrichs Rehearing Petition Denied

Friedrichs Opinion

Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

Friedrichs, Citizens United, and the "Free-Speech Gap"

Friedrichs and the Private Sector

Friedrichs Versus Wisconsin’s Act 10: A Brief Primer

Guest Post: Free Riding and Friedrichs

Bar Associations Are Much More Like Unions Than Friedrichs’ Attorney Acknowledged

The Friedrichs Oral Argument & How A Majority Would Overrule Abood

Re-Post: A Further Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs