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Xavier Becerra is the attorney general of California. Aimee Feinberg is a deputy solicitor general in the California Department of Justice. States like California have a great deal on the line in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31: Unions that give voice to public employees may no longer be able to effectively do their job, depending on how the Supreme Court rules.
Patrick Wright is the vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in Janus v. American Federation.
Emily Martin is general counsel and vice president for workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. She was part of an amicus brief in support of the unions in an earlier public-sector “agency fees” case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
Terence J. Pell is the president of the Center for Individual Rights, which helped represent the plaintiffs in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association and Yohn v. CTA, and which recently filed an amicus brief in Janus v. AFSCME on behalf of the plaintiffs in Yohn.
Andrée Sophia Blumstein is the solicitor general of Tennessee, which joined an amicus brief with 19 other states in support of the challenger in Janus v. AFSCME. The petitioner’s name in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 may prove to be telling.
Michael B. Kimberly is a partner at Mayer Brown LLP and co-director of the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of constitutional law scholars in support of the unions in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, on which this essay is based.
Deborah J. La Fetra is a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation. Public-employee unions are the only associations in the country legally permitted to take money — garnished wages — from nonmembers who do not support their goals.
Catherine Fisk is a professor of law at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 presents a First Amendment challenge to all Illinois public-sector labor-relations statutes and all Illinois government labor contracts that require union-represented employees to pay a fee to the union for services that the union is required by law to provide.
Like many employees, Mark Janus was upset about deductions from his paycheck – specifically, the roughly $45 per month that goes to the local branch of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the union that represents him.