On Friday, September 11, the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom joined several other state-based legal and policy organizations in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the freedom of employees to choose what political causes they support. In a joint amicus brief in the case of...
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the many things I like about North Carolina is a provision in the NC General Statutes that forbids collective bargaining by public employees. Thanks to that law, North Carolina public employee unions are, politically, relatively weak. In states without such laws, on the other hand, public...
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two weeks ago, I listed some actions by California State Attorney General Kamala Harris that had brought her notoriety, but I ran out of space before I could list them all. One of the actions I omitted pertains to the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. As I explained last week...
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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