Monday round-up
on Aug 24, 2015 at 7:32 am
Before the Justices began their summer recess at the end of June, they granted review in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, in which they will consider whether government employees who do not belong to a union can nonetheless be required to pay fees to support union activities related to collective bargaining. Lyle Denniston outlined the issues in the case in a “Made Simple” post for this blog; the blog will host a symposium on the case this week. And at the Appellate Practice Blog of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, Lisa Soronen suggests that the “stakes for unionized public employees couldn’t be higher” in the case.
On Thursday, former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell asked the Court to allow him to stay out of prison until his appeals are completed. Lyle Denniston covered the filing for this blog; other coverage comes from Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press (via Yahoo! News).
Briefly:
- In her column for Reuters, Alison Frankel reports that last week the federal government “urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant review in a case that presents the question of whether lawmakers encroached on the executive and judicial branches to deliver nearly $2 billion in Iranian assets to terror victims.”
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