Joseph Ocol v. Chicago Teachers Union, et al.
SocialSecurity Antitrust FirstAmendment LaborRelations
Should the Court overrule Knight and hold that the First Amendment prohibits States from forcing dissident public employees to accept a hostile union as their exclusive bargaining representative?
question presented is: Should the Court overrule Knight and hold that the First Amendment prohibits States from forcing dissident public employees to accept a hostile union as their exclusive bargaining representative? (i) 2. Does 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provide a “good-faith defense” to private entities who violate another’s constitutional rights before the courts have clearly established the illegality of their conduct and, if so, does this “goodfaith defense” allow a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 defendant who takes another person’s money or property in violation of the Constitution—but in reliance on a statute or court ruling that purported to authorize its conduct and is only later declared unconstitutional—to keep that money or property when the owner sues for its return? (ii)