The most recent appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a case related to its landmark 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME “presents the court with a clean opportunity to end the string of bad law lower courts have created to evade Janus.”
The court’s desperate need to take action was underscored on Oct. 7, when it was announced the justices had declined to consider six similar cases that would have clarified and reinforced the First Amendment rights ostensibly affirmed in Janus of public employees to decline union membership and dues.
On Sept. 16, the Freedom Foundation filed a writ of certiorari with the court in Kirsti Parde v. SEIU, in which the petitioner — a Los Angeles County court reporter — alleges her employer continued to illegally deduct union dues from her paycheck for several months after she notified Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721 of her…
