Legal Opinion
James Tierney v. City of Toledo, Toledo Police Patrolman's Association
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 27, 1987No. 85-3016, 85-3290PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Circuit Judge.
The principal issue in this civil rights litigation is whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments are offended by a plan requiring objecting non-union policemen to contribute a “service fee” as their “share” of the union’s costs of negotiating and maintaining its collective bargaining agreement with the City of Toledo. It was our earlier view that the plan and the Toledo ordinance supporting it represented, as far as they had gone, a proper compliance with Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209, 97 S.Ct. 1782, 52 L.Ed.2d 261 (1977), and we affirmed in an…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Abood v. Detroit Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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- Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. HudsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Town of Lockport v. Citizens for Community Action at the Local Level, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by111 opinions
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