Hudson v. Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, nonunion teachers, filed a suit against the Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Board of Education that challenged the constitutionality of the procedural scheme employed by the Union to collect “fair share fees” 1 from their nonunion employees. In Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson, 475 U.S. 292, 106 S.Ct. 1066, 89 L.Ed.2d 232 (1986), the Supreme Court held that the Union’s procedural scheme was constitutionally defective. On remand, the district court concluded that the Union’s revised procedural scheme was constitutionally adequate under the…