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In Challenges to Mandatory Union Dues, Massachusetts Is Latest Target

Apr 17, 2014 Nikolas Bowie

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a Massachusetts law that provides for the unionization of certain family childcare providers, such as nannies and nurseries. The suit is the latest of several recent challenges the NRTW has brought against state unionization schemes, including an Illinois case, Harris v. Quinn, now pending before […]

Cases in the Pipeline — Challenges to Union Security Clauses

Feb 28, 2014 Nikolas Bowie

As members of the Supreme Court draft their opinions in Harris v. Quinn — the case we have been closely watching because it may determine the future of union security clauses for public-sector workers — a number of other potentially significant cases challenging security clauses in public and private contexts are brewing in the lower […]

Reuters on Harris v. Quinn Argument

Jan 21, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

Amanda Becker at Reuters has a careful and good review of today’s argument in Harris v. Quinn. She concludes: The U.S. Supreme Court seemed unlikely on Tuesday to embrace a sweeping argument advanced by a group of Illinois state employees that paying mandatory union dues violates their free-speech rights. Backed by the anti-union National Right […]

Oral Argument in Harris v. Quinn: Justice Scalia Siding with the Union?

Jan 21, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

Here is the quickie transcript of the oral argument this morning in Harris v. Quinn. Perhaps the most important takeaway from argument is that Justice Scalia appeared to believe that the First Amendment is not implicated when public employee unions bargain over employment conditions, and thus seemed disinclined to overrule Abood (even though he joined Knox, which stated in dicta […]

Harris v. Quinn Oral Arguments Today: Everything You Need to Know

Jan 21, 2014 Jordan M. Grossman

The Supreme Court hears arguments in Harris v. Quinn today, potentially one of the most important labor cases in years. We have temporarily placed all of our Harris-related posts over the last several months at the top of the page to provide readers with easy access to On Labor’s extensive analysis of this critical case.

Harris v. Quinn: The Context of First Amendment Claims

Jan 20, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

In its First Amendment jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has long taken the view that the nature of the relationship between government and citizens varies across contexts. And the Court has repeatedly held that as the nature of this relationship varies so does the strength of the First Amendment’s protections for individual speech and expression. When […]

Is Abood in Trouble?

Jan 19, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

That question is the title of Lyle Denniston’s preview of Harris v. Quinn at SCOTUSblog. After reviewing the history of the case, Denniston explains how it “has mushroomed, since the Court granted it, into a major test of the continuing validity of the Abood precedent.” (Abood held that agency shop arrangements in the public sector are consistent […]

Petitioners' Reply Brief in Harris v. Quinn

Jan 18, 2014 Jack Goldsmith

It can be found here. Oral argument is Tuesday.

Q & A on Harris v. Quinn

Jan 6, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

Here (with apologies for the conversational style) is a Q & A on Harris v. Quinn that I did with Salon’s excellent labor reporter, Josh Eidelson. The interview focuses on the potential implications of Harris, but Eidelson also asked an interesting question about how the Petitioners are characterizing the case: The National Right to Work Foundation, which helped bring […]

Harris v. Quinn: One more amicus (six more states)

Dec 31, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

One more amicus brief on behalf of Respondents in Harris v. Quinn filed by an additional six states.

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In Challenges to Mandatory Union Dues, Massachusetts Is Latest Target

Cases in the Pipeline — Challenges to Union Security Clauses

Reuters on Harris v. Quinn Argument

Oral Argument in Harris v. Quinn: Justice Scalia Siding with the Union?

Harris v. Quinn Oral Arguments Today: Everything You Need to Know

Harris v. Quinn: The Context of First Amendment Claims

Is Abood in Trouble?

Petitioners' Reply Brief in Harris v. Quinn

Q & A on Harris v. Quinn

Harris v. Quinn: One more amicus (six more states)