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HIGH COURT DEALS 7-2 BLOW AGAINST SEIU
Brietbart ^ | 6/21/2012 | Breitbart News

Posted on 06/21/2012 8:37:57 AM PDT by KansasGirl

Press release from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (AP story below): Washington, DC (June 21, 2012) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today, siding with nonmember California state employees challenging a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) political fee charged to them without notice and opportunity to opt out.   The case concludes a prolonged legal challenge affecting some 36,000 California government employees initiated by eight California civil servants who filed a class-action lawsuit with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.   In 2005, SEIU officials imposed a “special assessment” to raise money from all state employees forced to accept union representation as a job condition for a union political fund, regardless of their membership status. The fund was used to defeat four ballot proposals, including one that would have revoked public employee unions’ special privilege of using forced fees for politics unless an employee consents. Employees who refrained from union membership were given no chance to opt out of paying the SEIU’s political assessment.  

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2012; bustunions; corruption; court; criminalunions; democrats; fascistunions; scotus; seiu; supreme; supremecourt; union; unioncorruption; uniondues; unionmembership; unions
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Breyer and Kagan dissented.
1 posted on 06/21/2012 8:38:02 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

Excellent.


2 posted on 06/21/2012 8:46:04 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: KansasGirl

Well, it’s not the Healthcare ruling we were looking for, but it’s surely a good ruling and important in it’s own right.

I’m sure Andy Stern and his Thug Brigade are taken aback, not only by the ruling, but the margin. This means that Sotomayor and Ginsberg voted with the conservatives.

A brief moment of clarity in two otherwise addled minds.


3 posted on 06/21/2012 8:47:38 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: KansasGirl
Breyer and Kagan dissented.

They must be the smart ones. ; )

4 posted on 06/21/2012 8:52:09 AM PDT by ILS21R (John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)
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To: KansasGirl

Breyer and Kagan are Pro-Theft!


5 posted on 06/21/2012 8:52:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Presidential Race is about the relative light reflectivity of your Socialist Slavemaster.)
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To: KansasGirl; All

The biggest story you are going to hear ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT on the Evening News Shows.

This has HUGE implications for the Union funding of Democrat political Campaigns, and everybody knows it. Which is why the Big Media is going to go COMPLETELY SILENT about it.


6 posted on 06/21/2012 8:53:23 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: KansasGirl

Great news, but why weren’t these types of lawsuits done many years ago?


7 posted on 06/21/2012 8:53:35 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: shibumi

Don’t worry over much about their minds.

Their next opinions on the more important rulings WILL blow your (our) minds.

It is all a set up job.


8 posted on 06/21/2012 8:54:38 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: KansasGirl
Imagine working a job, knowing that money was being deducted from your paycheck in order to fund the Obama for president campaign or the Elizabeth Warren for senate campaign.

I wouldn't be able to do it.

Glad to see that the union workers can now opt out of this political extortion scheme.

9 posted on 06/21/2012 8:57:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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At the USPS membership in the APWU and the Mailhandlers unions are optional. Considering every fall they tell us to shut upo and vote for dems, and the pres of the NPMHU is one of Mumia Jamal’s lovers, this option is a no-brainer for me.


10 posted on 06/21/2012 8:58:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: KansasGirl

Fox led with this story an hour ago, NPR ignored it.


11 posted on 06/21/2012 9:00:41 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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To: Moonman62

They’ve been litigating them for decades, and the unions keep violating the laws.


12 posted on 06/21/2012 9:03:12 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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To: KansasGirl
BLOW AGAINST SEIU

ALL unions.
Before this ruling, union members were forced to pay additional fees for democrat campaigns. Many union members weren't democrat, but were forced to fund their campaigns anyway. This does away with that.

Because union members are no longer forced to financially support democrats, their union funding is going to go way down. The dem politicians must be freaking out right now. Union members are free to tell the democrats to stuff it!

13 posted on 06/21/2012 9:04:01 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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so Kagan is even nuttier than Ginsburg.

wow.


14 posted on 06/21/2012 9:08:56 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: KansasGirl
WHOO HOO !!!

Leni

15 posted on 06/21/2012 9:13:58 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: KansasGirl

So will the unions be forced to give the money back?


16 posted on 06/21/2012 9:15:26 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: ILS21R

Breyer and Kagan are the stupid ones. They wanted to continue the status quo, which was to force members to pay the fee.

Ginsburg and Sottomayer are the honest (less stupid) liberals.


17 posted on 06/21/2012 9:20:50 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: KansasGirl; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...

Great news! Thanks, KansasGirl...


18 posted on 06/21/2012 9:30:32 AM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin: Anybody But Obama 2012)
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To: shibumi
This means that Sotomayor and Ginsberg voted with the conservatives. A brief moment of clarity in two otherwise addled minds.
I guarantee there was no "clarity" from these two commies. Not even for a millisecond.
It was accidental - they pushed the wrong button.
19 posted on 06/21/2012 9:35:00 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: KansasGirl

Any word on health care decisions? http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/ is still on 6/18 posts.


20 posted on 06/21/2012 9:38:06 AM PDT by PapaNew
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