California union dues case dies, but another rises up
When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly 11 months ago, it was a fatal blow to a landmark California case dealing with compulsory union dues.
Scalia, it was certain, would have made it a 5-4 majority to overturn laws in California and 23 other states requiring non-members of public employee unions to make “fair share” payments to those unions.
The outcome of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association was so certain that public employee unions were openly strategizing on how to maintain their political power after losing.
Then Scalia died and the CTA won by default on a 4-4 tie among the remaining justices, dealing a big setback to the conservative “right-to-work” organizations that had backed the suit.
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