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Charlotte Garden is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law and Litigation Director of the Korematsu Center for Law & Equality. Across America, an intense debate is taking plac...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-another-battle-in-the-war-over-union-fees/

David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Andrew M. Grossman practice appellate litigation in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. They filed an amicus brief in support of certiorari in Friedri...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-correcting-the-historical-accident-of-opt-out-requirements/

Catherine Fisk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association presents two issues: (1) whether to over...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-the-friedrichs-petition-should-be-dismissed/

William Messenger is an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.  He argued on behalf of the petitioners in Harris v. Quinn. The First Amendment generally forbids the g...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-will-the-court-continue-to-recognize-a-distinction-between-bargaining-with-government-and-lobbying-the-government/

Ann C. Hodges is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. As every first-year law student learns, the First Amendment is not absolute because the government can restrict sp...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-public-sector-unions-labor-relations-and-free-speech/

Deborah J. La Fetra is a Principal Attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation.  Since 1990, she has written dozens of amicus briefs and directly represented dissenters in challenges to state-compelled...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/08/symposium-overrule-abood-to-protect-individual-rights/