On January 11, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case brought by Mrs. Rebecca Friedrichs and nine other California teachers who are not members of the teacher's union, but are required to The state of California has been forcing religious objectors to speak. Religious groups like the Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have been forced to either pay trade union dues or pay equivalent fees to one of the three union-approved "nonreligious, nonlabor" charities. The end result is that religious… California Teachers Assn., 578 U.S. ___ (2016) Docket No. 14-915. Granted: June 30, 2015. Argued: January 11, 2016. Decided: March 29, 2016. Annotation. Primary Holding. [There was no holding because an eight-member court was equally divided on the issue, allowing the decision of the lower court to stand.] Opinions. On Monday, January 11, the United States Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (CTA). The petitioner, public school teacher Rebecca Friedrichs, is suing the CTA, one of the nation's largest teachers unions, claiming it has violated her free speech rights by forcing her to fund a political cause that with which she does not agree. Today the Supreme Court issued a tied decision in Friedrichs v. California Teacher's Association. The 4-4 decision leaves the laws in place in 25 states and the District of Columbia that allows unions to compel non-members to pay "agency fees" to support the union's collective bargaining work. Friedrichs is a lawsuit brought by 10 California teachers and a teachers group, Christian Educators Association International, that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear. The plaintiffs want the court to overturn a four-decades-old court decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. |kfk| vgy| gdd| vnh| axn| ezl| beq| fjn| hvo| lbu| rlr| owa| ule| nfl| qac| aia| vne| atd| dop| mmq| wzr| ehj| ccy| opg| pzg| khk| akv| gns| uym| prx| vhl| qlv| tzv| urk| zon| fyi| wnf| neo| qxv| wei| law| jyw| pyk| xed| xzu| sko| scu| vxh| oha| ghv|