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Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California Irvine School of Law. In Harris v. Quinn, the Court struck down an Illinois law authorizing the state to agree with the SEIU, the union that represents government-paid home care workers, that the workers must pay their fair share of the cost of the legal services that the SEIU is required by law to provide.
Charlotte Garden teaches labor & constitutional law at Seattle University School of Law, where she is an assistant professor and Litigation Director of the Korematsu Center for Law & Equality.
Thomas R. McCarthy and Samuel B. Gedge are attorneys at Wiley Rein. They were counsel to a group of home care workers as amici supporting the petitioners.
What most people will take away from Harris v. Quinn is what the Court did not decide. Although the petitioners asked the Court to overrule its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and, effectively, make right-to-work laws constitutionally required in all public sector employment, the Court chose not to take so drastic a step.
Jason Walta is an attorney at the Nataional Education Association, which filed an amicus brief in support of the respondents.
Terence J. Pell is President of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm. Together with Jones Day, it is representing ten California teachers in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case now before the Ninth Circuit that challenges compulsory union dues on First Amendment grounds.
Dr. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, and former Dean, at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is also the founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, which participated as an amicus curiae in this case.