Illinois Governor, SEIU Oppose Supreme Court Hearing Union Fee Appeal

Mealey's (May 21, 2019, 2:09 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana Missouri, Kansas filed separate briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on May 20, opposing a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by non-union personal home health care assistants, asking if they need “to prove contemporaneous subjective opposition” to the SEIU, the union that collected fair-share fees from them, to establish injury and damages under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Theresa Riffey, et al. v. Governor J.B. Pritzker, et al., No. 18-1120, U.S. Sup.)....