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Center For Individual Rights

Type: Organization

Name: Center For Individual Rights

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Forced union dues violate free speech: Column

Teacher writing on white board. / Jetta Productionsby Michael Carvin, James Burnham and Terence Pell, USATODAYFiled UnderJust as the government cannot stop you from supporting a political candidate, it cannot make you pay to support a candidate. The First ... [Published Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - May 20 2013]

Entities: Free Speech, Collective Bargaining, James Burnham, Michael Carvin

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

National Education Association

Lawsuit in California targets workers’ rights

A coalition of conservative organizations in California has filed a lawsuit against the National Education Association (NEA), the California Teachers Association (CTA) and several other teachers unions. The lawsuit filed in Santa Ana, California, targets ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 16 2013]

Entities: Lawsuit, National Education Association, Workers

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Chalkboard Rebellion in the Golden State

Ten California teachers are suing to break one of the strongest iron triangles in American politics, where the taxpayers pay the teachers; the teachers’ union supports candidates and referenda, and that leads eventually to the teachers getting better ... [Published Town Hall - May 12 2013]

Entities: Terry Pell, Center For Individual Rights, Gray Davis, California Teachers Association, Referendum

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Chicago Teachers Union

Union spends teachers’ money on politics, says suit

Reporter, The Daily Caller News FoundationChicago Teachers Union. Photo - Facebook/Chicago Teachers UnionA group of teachers is suing to stop the California teachers union from collecting mandatory agency fees from non-members and spending the money on ... [Published Daily Caller - May 03 2013]

Entities: Terry Pell, Chicago Teachers Union, Lawsuit, Center For Individual Rights, Frank Wells

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Another attack on public-employee unions

Big-business and conservative interests have been trying to years to find a way to undermine the political clout of organized labor, particularly unions like the teachers and nurses, who have played a huge role in progressive campaigns. And now there's ... [Published San Francisco Bay Guardian - May 02 2013]

Entities: California First Amendment Coalition, Center For Individual Rights, Chris Daly, Peter Scheer

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

California Teachers Association

Peter Scheer: New First Amendment Suit Poses Existential Threat to Government Unions

Public employee unions face a new, and mortal, threat. It's not the unfunded liability of union pension plans or municipal governments' resort to bankruptcy to void union contracts. It's not state initiatives to restrict collective bargaining rights or ... [Published Huffington Post - May 02 2013]

Entities: First Amendment, Peter Scheer, Threat, California Teachers Association

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Teachers' Union Confronted to 'Set My People Free'

Contact: Finn Laursen, , 888-798-1124 LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) with Jones Day partner, Michael Carvin, serving as lead counsel has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the ... [Published Christian News Wire - May 01 2013]

Entities: National Education Association, Michael Carvin, Center For Individual Rights

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

The Constitution

For well over two centuries, the United States Constitution has served as a charter for a free, democratic government and for a country that has risen from a dicey political experiment to an economic and political superpower. In the history of the world, ... [Published American Enterprise Institute - May 01 2013]

Entities: Richard A. Epstein, Center For Individual Rights, George Mason University School of Law

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 3 reports

California Non-Union Teachers Sue Unions Over Coercive Political Funding

(CNSNews.com) – California teachers who say they are tired of paying for political causes they do not support – such as Democratic campaigns and gay and lesbian conferences -- are suing the National Education Association, the California Teachers Association, ... [Published CNS News - May 01 2013]

Entities: First Amendment, California Teachers Association, National Education Association, Center For Individual Rights

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Teacher lawsuit in Calif bucks required union fees

LOS ANGELES --Ten California schoolteachers have sued the politically powerful California Teachers Association to escape paying union fees that they claim violate free speech rights.The challenge aims at laws that allow unions to collect certain fees ... [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - May 01 2013]

Entities: Frank Wells, Lawsuit, Center For Individual Rights, California Teachers Association, National Education Association

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Calif. lawsuit would relieve non-union teachers of paying dues

Joel GehrkeTen teachers and the Christian Educators Association International are suing to block a California law requiring teachers to pay union dues even if they aren’t union members, a lawsuit that could potentially weaken some of the most powerful ... [Published Washington Examiner - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Lawsuit, Center For Individual Rights, Powerful

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Center for Individual Rights Files Suit on Behalf of Non-Union Teachers Against the National Education Association and t

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of 10 California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International, ... [Published NewsBlaze - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Center For Individual Rights, National Education Association, First Amendment

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...a public-sector union takes many positions during collective bargaining that have powerful political and civic consequences," these sorts of "compulsory fees constitute a form of compelled speech and association that imposes a significant impingement on First Amendment rights." The Court is right. The time has come for that "significant impingement" to end

Forced union dues violate free speech: Column [Published Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - May 20 2013]

"The government may not compel teachers to provide financial support to policies with which they fundamentally disagree,” he said."

Chalkboard Rebellion in the Golden State [Published Town Hall - May 12 2013]

...the courts to stop the NEA and its local and state affiliates from forcing educators who choose not to join the union to pay fees in their support. "The NEA and its affiliates support issues that many of our members do not want to invest in such as abortion and same-sex marriage and the union opposes other issues many of our members support such as school choice and other forms of school reform" said CEAI Executive Director Finn Laursen

Teachers' Union Confronted to 'Set My People Free' [Published Christian News Wire - May 01 2013]

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The Constitution [Published American Enterprise Institute - May 01 2013]

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Forced union dues violate free speech: Column [Published Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - May 20 2013]
Lawsuit in California targets workers’ rights [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 16 2013]
Chalkboard Rebellion in the Golden State [Published Town Hall - May 12 2013]
Union spends teachers’ money on politics, says ... [Published Daily Caller - May 03 2013]
Another attack on public-employee unions [Published San Francisco Bay Guardian - May 02 2013]
Peter Scheer: New First Amendment Suit Poses Ex... [Published Huffington Post - May 02 2013]
Teachers' Union Confronted to 'Set My People Free' [Published Christian News Wire - May 01 2013]
The Constitution [Published American Enterprise Institute - May 01 2013]
California Non-Union Teachers Sue Unions Over C... [Published CNS News - May 01 2013]
Teacher lawsuit in Calif bucks required union fees [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - May 01 2013]
CA Non-Union Teachers Sue Teachers Unions Over ... [Published CNS News - Apr 30 2013]
Lawsuit targets union fees collected from nonme... [Published Los Angeles Times - Apr 30 2013]
Calif. lawsuit would relieve non-union teachers... [Published Washington Examiner - Apr 30 2013]
California teachers sue NEA over forced $1,000 ... [Published Washington Examiner - Apr 30 2013]
Center for Individual Rights Files Suit on Beha... [Published NewsBlaze - Apr 30 2013]
Center for Individual Rights Files Suit on Beha... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Apr 30 2013]
Legal scholar to discuss federal debt and the C... [Published Virginia Tech - Apr 15 2013]
MoJo's Running Coverage of CPAC 2013 [Published MoJo Articles \| Mother Jones - Mar 16 2013]
At CPAC 2013, FreedomWorks Is Nowhere to be Found [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - Mar 15 2013]
Conservative Group Attempts To Block New Hampsh... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - Jan 02 2013]
Update on New Hampshire Voting Rights Act Case [Published The Corner on National Review Online - Dec 05 2012]

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At CPAC 2013, FreedomWorks Is Nowhere to be Found [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - Mar 15 2013] As it does every year, the conservative movement has turned out en masse for the Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, an annual Washington confab. Everyone's here: activists, operatives, Rand Paulites, politicians, Mitt Romney, ...
Update on New Hampshire Voting Rights Act Case [Published The Corner on National Review Online - Dec 05 2012] In an article in NRO on Tuesday, I outlined the trickery being practiced by the Justice Department in a bailout lawsuit filed by New Hampshire under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the D.C. federal district court. DOJ was preparing to consent ...

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Center for Individual Rights Files Suit on Beha... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Apr 30 2013]