U.S. Supreme Court rules First Amendment does not allow public sector union to require objecting nonmembers to pay special fee to finance union’s political activites
In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and held that a California public sector union had violated the First Amendment when it imposed a special assessment on nonmembers to fund solely political activities without providing those members with the opportunity to opt out of paying the fee.
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