California figured prominently, albeit indirectly, in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent high-profile decisions on Obamacare, same-sex marriages and congressional redistricting.
Justice Antonin Scalia even scornfully singled out California in his dissent on the marriage case.
Scalia and his colleagues are not, however, done with California.
As the court recessed this week, it accepted a landmark challenge to the California Teachers Association’s state-sanctioned collection of mandatory dues from teachers, a case whose outcome could seriously affect the state’s balance of political power.
Orange County teacher Rebecca Friedrichs is the nominal lead plaintiff in the case pursued by the Center for Individual Rights, an anti-union organization. It challenges the “fair share” fees that nonmembers must pay under a law passed by the Legislature in 2000 and signed by then-Gov. Gray Davis.
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