U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Public-Sector Agency Fee Suit

Mealey's (February 26, 2018, 3:24 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977), should be overruled, an attorney representing a public-sector employee challenging the requirement that he pay agency fees to a union he chose not to join argued on Feb. 26 before the U.S. Supreme Court, “because it failed to apply heightened First Amendment scrutiny to a compulsory fee for speech to influence governmental policies” (Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al., No. 16-1466, U.S. Sup.)....