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Friedrichs Amici Brief: AFT & AAUP

Nov 16, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

In the run-up to oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, OnLabor will be reviewing some of the significant amicus briefs that have been filed in the case. The AFT and AAUP also filed an amici brief for the Friedrichs respondents on Friday. In contrast to the AFL-CIO and AFSCME, the AFT and AAUP focus […]

Friedrichs Amici Brief: AFL-CIO & AFSCME

Nov 16, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

In the run-up to oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, OnLabor will be reviewing some of the significant amicus briefs that have been filed in the case. On Friday, several of the country’s largest unions filed amici briefs in support of the respondents in Friedrichs. The AFL-CIO and AFSCME mount a largely doctrinal […]

Friedrichs Amici Brief: Constitutional Law Professors

Nov 16, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

In the run-up to oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, OnLabor will be reviewing some of the significant amicus briefs that have been filed in the case. Earlier this month, OnLabor discussed an amici brief submitted by a group of corporate law professors in support of the Friedrichs respondents. Yet the nineteen professors who signed […]

Friedrichs Amici Brief: Corporate Law Professors

Nov 6, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

In the run-up to oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, OnLabor will be reviewing some of the significant amicus briefs that have been filed in the case. Earlier today, an amici brief in support of the Friedrichs respondents was submitted on behalf of nineteen corporate law professors. The brief — which is available […]

Union Respondents File Brief in Friedrichs

Nov 6, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

The union respondents in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association have now filed their brief as well, which is available here. The respondents call for Abood v. Detroit Board of Education to “be reaffirmed because it correctly respects public employers’ prerogative to manage their workforces to ensure the efficient provision of public services to their citizens.” […]

California AG Files Brief in Friedrichs

Nov 6, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed its brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The brief, which is available here, begins by asking the Supreme Court to reject petitioners’ contentions that the “Court erred in deciding Abood [v. Detroit Board of Education], and that California may not use mandatory agency fees […]

Majority Rule and the Rights of Minorities: Friedrichs and Penn Plaza

Nov 3, 2015 Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. While the primary importance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association will be for the future of public sector unions, the conceptual issue that makes the case interesting is how the Court will balance majority rule and individual […]

Controversy over Illinois Governor’s Amicus Brief in Friedrichs

Oct 26, 2015 Juhyung Harold Lee

Among the slew of amicus briefs submitted on behalf of the petitioners in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, one brief in particular is starting to attract some extra attention. The New York Times reported today on an ongoing battle between Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and the state’s attorney general, Lisa Madigan, over an amicus brief […]

Guest Post: A Further Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

Oct 5, 2015 Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. 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 out, Justice Scalia (joined by Justice Kennedy) […]

An Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

Oct 1, 2015 Benjamin Sachs

In the run-up to the oral argument in Friedrichs we’ve paid a lot of attention to Justice Scalia’s concurrence in Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Ass’n. But, to date, we’ve largely ignored another Scalia opinion that deserves much more attention. That opinion is Justice Scalia’s dissent in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois. The question in Rutan was whether the First Amendment allowed Illinois to […]

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Friedrichs Amici Brief: AFT & AAUP

Friedrichs Amici Brief: AFL-CIO & AFSCME

Friedrichs Amici Brief: Constitutional Law Professors

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Union Respondents File Brief in Friedrichs

California AG Files Brief in Friedrichs

Majority Rule and the Rights of Minorities: Friedrichs and Penn Plaza

Controversy over Illinois Governor’s Amicus Brief in Friedrichs

Guest Post: A Further Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs

An Observation about Justice Scalia and Friedrichs