James P. Lehnert v. The Ferris Faculty Association-Mea-Nea

LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this action nonunion public employees sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an injunction and other relief from a collective bargaining agreement permitted under state law that they alleged compelled them to pay to the defendant union an unconstitutional “service fee” as a condition of employment. The district court granted an injunction upon holding that insofar as it contained a service fee arrangement the collective bargaining agreement between the public employer and the exclusive bargaining agent did not satisfy the constitutional requirements enunciated by the…