public-employees
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-280 | Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-protection disassociation-rights first-amendment government-unions public-employees union-membership | Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to disassociate from the union? |
| 25-156 | Freedom Foundation v. Rita Gail Turner, in Her Official Capacity as Litigation Research Coordinator in the Public Records Act Unit, Office of General Counsel, Los Angeles School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | access-to-information first-amendment labor-law public-employees union-membership viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that prevents anyone but incumbent unions from accessing information necessary to communicate with public employees before they are recr… |
| 24A1248 | Tracy Cox, et al. v. Association of Oregon Corrections Employees, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | dues-deduction first-amendment free-association public-employees resignation-restrictions union-membership | Whether a public sector union can impose conditions on an employee's resignation from union membership that restrict their First Amendment rights to f… | |
| 23-1112 | Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds | Do public employees who are former union members possess the First Amendment right to refuse to contribute to union political campaign funds? |
| 23A786 | Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues | Whether the First Amendment requires affirmative consent for union dues deductions from public employees' paychecks under the Janus precedent, particu… | |
| 23A792 | Glenn Laird v. United Teachers Los Angeles, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent labor-organization public-employees union-dues | Whether the First Amendment requires affirmative consent and constitutional waiver standards established in Janus v. AFSCME apply to former union memb… | |
| 23A780 | Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-membership | Whether the First Amendment requires affirmative consent and constitutional waiver standards established in Janus v. AFSCME apply to former union memb… | |
| 23-672 | Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | civil-rights concerted-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-pickering group-speech petition-rights public-employees summary-judgment | Is a petition written, signed and circulated outside of work by 45 current and former county employees and delivered to their elected officials, a mat… | |
| 23A383 | Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment garcetti-pickering group-speech public-concern public-employees summary-judgment | Whether the First Amendment protects group speech by public employees petitioning elected officials about workplace concerns under an expanded Garcett… | |
| 23-372 | Torey Jarrett v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-06 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights consent due-process public-employees public-sector-unions state-action state-actor union-dues wage-deduction wage-deductions | Whether a state-designated exclusive representative is a state actor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when it directs a public employer to deduct dues from non-… |
| 21-992 | Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response Waived | belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver | Do boilerplate union membership agreements supersede employees' First Amendment rights when it comes to government unions taking employees' money for … |
| 21-609 | Loriann Anderson, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech nonmember-employees public-employees state-action union-dues union-membership waiver | Whether government employers and unions need clear and compelling evidence of employees' knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of First Amendment… |
| 21-575 | Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination | Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work… |
| 20-1120 | Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues | Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived the… |
| 19-726 | Mallory Jones, et al. v. Ramone Lamkin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Marshal of the Civil and Magistrate Court of Richmond County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | branti-finkel branti-v-finkel civil-rights confidential-employee due-process elrod-burns elrod-v-burns employment employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-policy policy-maker policymaker public-employee public-employees public-sector | Whether the exception to First Amendment protections for public employees applies based on the actual work performed or the written job description |
| 18-766 | Teresa Bierman, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | exclusive-representation expressive-association first-amendment government-speech heightened-scrutiny individual-rights mandatory-expressive-association mandatory-representation public-employees rational-basis | Can the government designate an exclusive representative to speak for individuals for any rational basis, or is this mandatory expressive association … |