Will the Court Consider the Facts in Janus?
Mark Janus’s lawyers are desperate to have the Court decide Janus v. AFSCME without considering...
January 24th 2021
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Mark Janus’s lawyers are desperate to have the Court decide Janus v. AFSCME without considering...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in Janus. Analyses report that, as expected,...
The Supreme Court has posted the transcript of this morning's oral argument in Janus. Notably,...
Janus v. AFSCME will soon decide the constitutional fate of fair-share fees for public sector unions. These fees support unions’ collective bargaining work on behalf of employees they are legally required to represent but who are not union members. Most prognosticators expect the Supreme Court to hand the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) a win on its claim that such fees violate the First Amendment rights of non-union workers. Yet, as I develop further below, the history that led to Janus offers three thin rays of hope to the labor movement.
Most of the coverage of Janus v. AFSCME, like this recent piece in USA Today, simply (and...
A group of over two dozen economists and law and economics professors filed an amicus...
Several leading professors of labor and employment law have filed an amicus brief in support of...
An amicus filed on Friday in Janus and based on Ben's new article Agency Fees and the First...
AFSCME filed its response brief in Janus last week. It defends Abood's distinction between...
Wes Turner is a J.D. candidate at Washington University School of Law. In the upcoming case...
The American Center for Law and Justice, a religiously oriented free speech advocacy...
Last week, First Amendment scholars Professors Charles Fried and Robert Post filed this amicus...